https://www.pistack.xyz/tags/event-streaming/ Recent content in Event-Streaming on Pi Stack Hugo en-us Sun, 10 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.pistack.xyz/posts/2026-05-10-self-hosted-kafka-operations-management-strimzi-cruise-control-cmak-guide/ Sun, 10 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.pistack.xyz/posts/2026-05-10-self-hosted-kafka-operations-management-strimzi-cruise-control-cmak-guide/ <p>Apache Kafka has become the de facto standard for event streaming in modern distributed systems. But running Kafka in production — especially at scale — introduces significant operational complexity: managing brokers, rebalancing partitions, monitoring cluster health, and handling failures. This guide compares three open-source tools that tackle Kafka operations from different angles: <strong>Strimzi</strong> (Kubernetes-native operator), <strong>Cruise Control</strong> (automated rebalancing and self-healing), and <strong>CMAK</strong> (cluster management UI, formerly Yahoo Kafka Manager).</p>