https://ivandemarino.me/tags/workload/ Recent content in Workload on Zio Ivan Hugo en detronizator+blog@gmail.com (Ivan De Marino, aka "Zio Ivan", aka "detro") detronizator+blog@gmail.com (Ivan De Marino, aka "Zio Ivan", aka "detro") 2004-2026 Ivan De Marino. Licensed under CC BY 4.0 Wed, 14 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://ivandemarino.me/posts/announcing-ksunami/ Wed, 14 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000detronizator+blog@gmail.com (Ivan De Marino, aka "Zio Ivan", aka "detro") https://ivandemarino.me/posts/announcing-ksunami/ <p>October this year, while I was in the process of <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6995482562605236224/">changing job</a>, I started working on an open source project to monitor Kafka <em>consumer lag</em>. At <a href="https://newrelic.com">New Relic</a>, a previous gig, we used <strong>a lot of Kafka</strong>, and we cared equally about monitoring its usage: there are some <a href="https://newrelic.com/blog/best-practices/new-relic-kafkapocalypse">great articles</a> on New Relic own blogs, <a href="https://newrelic.com/blog/search?s=kafka">published over the years</a>.</p> <p>In the process, I realised that I needed a way to spin up a Kafka cluster for development, <em>and</em> I needed a producer of Kafka records, that was able to behave in accordance to specific scenarios.</p>