Reintroducing Kafdrop 3

A journey of revival

Emil Koutanov
codeburst
Published in
12 min readApr 23, 2020

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TL;DR Kafdrop 3 is a reboot of the original Kafdrop that fills a gaping void in the observability tooling of the world’s most popular event streaming platform. It solves problems that the Kafka community has been crying out for, bringing Event Sourcing and Big Data into closer reach of many developers.

Prologue

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Software architect, an engineer, and a dad. Also an avid storyteller, maintainer of Kafdrop, and author of Effective Kafka.