I needed to coordinate background scripts running across different machines. The obvious answer was Redis. Everyone uses Redis for this. The tutorials all use Redis. The Stack Overflow answers all say "just use Redis." So I looked at what deploying Redis would actually cost me: A running Redis server I had to maintain A broker to connect workers to it Celery or RQ on top of that Memory-based stora
In August 2025, a user reported that Apache Kafka v3.9.0 dropped consumer throughput by 10x. Other users reproduced it. The culprit was a configuration called min.insync.replicas, and the fix was three lines of code. Sharad Garg opened a ticket titled "Consumer throughput drops by 10 times with Kafka v3.9.0 in ZK mode." Ritvik Gupta ran controlled tests and traced the issue to min.insync.replicas.
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