Searching Kafka Without an Index: Lessons From Building Message Search for Kafdrop

The message left the first service at 2:14 PM and never reached the last one. Between those facts: four pipeline stages, six topics, a pub/sub API moving every record. The engineer on call had Kafdrop open, the offsets looked fine, and nobody could say which stage had eaten the record. That gap is why we built message search for Kafdrop at a... Weiterlesen: Searching Kafka Without an Index: Lessons From Building Message Searc…