https://joelhanson.com/tags/event-streaming/ Recent content in Event Streaming on Joel Hanson Hugo -- gohugo.io en joelhanson025@gmail.com (Joel Hanson) joelhanson025@gmail.com (Joel Hanson) &copy; Joel Hanson Fri, 19 Dec 2025 12:00:00 +0530 https://joelhanson.com/posts/25-building-stream-wars-a-real-time-multiplayer-tap-battle-game-with-kafka-and-websockets/ Fri, 19 Dec 2025 12:00:00 +0530 joelhanson025@gmail.com (Joel Hanson) https://joelhanson.com/posts/25-building-stream-wars-a-real-time-multiplayer-tap-battle-game-with-kafka-and-websockets/ I built Stream Wars as a tiny tap game to demo how Kafka works, by turning every tap in the browser into a real Kafka event you can inspect. https://joelhanson.com/posts/21-sse-kafka-connector/ Wed, 27 Aug 2025 21:15:47 +0530 joelhanson025@gmail.com (Joel Hanson) https://joelhanson.com/posts/21-sse-kafka-connector/ <h2 class="relative group">The Problem: Getting Real-time Data into Kafka <div id="the-problem-getting-real-time-data-into-kafka" class="anchor"></div> <span class="absolute top-0 w-6 transition-opacity opacity-0 -start-6 not-prose group-hover:opacity-100 select-none"> <a class="text-primary-300 dark:text-neutral-700 !no-underline" href="#the-problem-getting-real-time-data-into-kafka" aria-label="Anchor">#</a> </span> </h2> <p>Have you ever tried to stream Wikipedia changes or other real-time Server-Sent Events (SSE) updates into Kafka? If you have, you probably wrote custom Kafka producer and consumer code to handle these events, managed reconnections, and built your own error handling.</p>