Log Compaction – Highlights in the Apache Kafka ® and Stream Processing Community – June 2017 | Confluent

This post announces the upcoming General Availability of Kafka release 0.11.0.0, highlighting the introduction of Exactly Once Semantics (EOS). EOS provides more stringent idempotent producer semantics with exactly once, in-order delivery per partition, and stronger transactional guarantees with atomic writes across multiple partitions. It also mentions the growing adoption of Kafka Connect API and lists several new community-contributed connectors (AWS S3 sink, Redis source, RabbitMQ source, GitHub source, Amazon Kinesis source, MongoDB sink). The post also references upcoming Kafka Summit events and provides links to notable blogs and presentations discussing Kafka's use in various architectures.