7 Essential Kafka Design Patterns Every Engineer Should Master
This guide presents seven practical Kafka design patterns—single‑key single‑write, log compaction, multi‑consumer‑group fan‑out, retry and dead‑letter topics, exactly‑once processing with Streams, schema evolution with Avro, and choreography vs orchestration—detailing when to use each, core principles, code examples, tips, common pitfalls, and final recommendations for building reliable, observable, and maintainable event‑driven systems.
