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Kafka Common Problems

Joel Hanson
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Joel Hanson
Eight-plus years on production systems. At IBM Event Streams I work on Kafka Connect, schema registry migrations, and Kubernetes operators, and write about the failure modes that show up after deploy.

Problem: Kafka production issues often get buried in tribal knowledge — Slack threads, case notes, and one-off runbooks that never get reused.

What it is: A public collection of short playbooks: symptoms, diagnosis order, and customer-facing fixes — plus Docker Compose demos you can recreate locally (hot partitions first).

Why it matters: Gives a shared starting point for hot partitions and (soon) other recurring Kafka problems, useful for support, on-call, and anyone operating Event Streams / Kafka.

Links: GitHub · Blog post

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