Log Compaction | Highlights in the Apache Kafka and Stream Processing Community | August 2016 | Confluent

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This post details progress on KIP-4 for client-managed topics (API to create and delete topics voted in, ACL management under discussion), KIP-67 for queryable state in Kafka Streams, and best practices for running Kafka in AWS. It also mentions bugfixes for Kafka 0.10.0.1 and improvements to Spark Streaming.