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Apache Kafka event streaming & pipeline engineering

We design resilient event-driven architectures and streaming data pipelines with Apache Kafka and Confluent Cloud.

Core capabilities

Why we build with Apache Kafka

01

High-throughput partitioning

Distributing events across partitions for parallel consumption with strict key-level ordering guarantees.

02

Schema Registry & Avro/Protobuf

Enforcing backward and forward schema compatibility across producer and consumer services.

03

Consumer group tuning

Tuning fetch sizes, commit intervals and heartbeat intervals to stop rebalancing storms.

Use cases

Where Apache Kafka fits

Event-sourced financial systems

Immutable audit ledgers recording every state mutation for regulatory compliance.

Real-time user activity tracking

Streaming high-volume clickstream events to real-time analytics dashboards.

How we staff it

Apache Kafka engineers you interview first

Seniority and experience are agreed in the proposal, and you interview every engineer before they start.

Working-hours overlap is agreed for each engagement and written into the statement of work — the shared window, who shifts hours, and how handoffs work outside it.

Technical FAQs

Frequently asked engineering questions

We increase max.poll.interval.ms, process messages in asynchronous worker pools, and use cooperative sticky rebalance assignors.

Kafka is designed for high-throughput event replayability, multiple consumer groups reading the same stream, and strict ordering by partition key.

Ecosystem

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