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Thursday, October 1, 2026

Kafka 4.0's KIP-848 Protocol Kills Rebalancing Pauses on Amazon MSK

Apache Kafka 4.0 introduces KIP-848, a next-gen consumer protocol that eliminates those annoying stop-the-world pauses during consumer group rebalancing. Learn how to enable it on Amazon MSK Standard and Express brokers, plus get practical tips for diagnosing and fixing slow rebalancing issues.

source: [aws/big-data-blog]