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39 long-form articles on production engineering — how real systems fail, why, and what actually fixed them.

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Kafka & PipelinesSep 25, 202625 min read

How Kafka Finally Solved the “One Slow Message Blocks Everything” Problem — Share Groups, Explained Simply

You add 24 more workers to fix Kafka lag — and they all sit idle. Meanwhile one huge message is stuck at the front of a partition, and nothing behind it moves.