Log Compaction | Highlights in the Apache Kafka and Stream Processing Community | July 2016

The July 2016 edition of Log Compaction, a monthly digest of highlights in the Apache Kafka and stream processing community, has been released. It includes the announcement of Apache Kafka 3.8.0 with many new features and improvements. A blog post discusses some prominent features, while the full list of changes can be found in the release notes. Additionally, a debate on using tabs or spaces is addressed using the new confluent-kafka-javascript client to build an app that interacts with Kafka topics.