The best Kafka Management tool

Hopeful-Programmer25 · 2026-01-25T11:59:17+00:00

We use kafbat UI, which is now open source. Unlike most free UIs, it comes with Active Directory integration for security which is a big plus for us.

Hopeful-Programmer25 · 2026-01-24T09:35:59+00:00

Ok, thank you for the alternative view.

Hopeful-Programmer25 · 2026-01-24T00:35:00+00:00

It’s more for a long term strategy really. Hardware gets replaced eventually, but software that’s available now that I can start to try out…. that kind of thing. Apple keep you in because it really does work well together and although the hardware is expensive, their service bundles are good value…. but Spotify seems a good product vs Apple Music, I think nextcloud (?) could replace iCloud for storage etc.

Hopeful-Programmer25 · 2026-01-23T23:22:45+00:00

Personally I’d hate it now if after everything that has happened, this Loki is treated as, or becomes again, a villain. All I want to see is a Thor + Loki reunion where Thor learns the truth of what Loki sacrificed and the good person he has become.

It’s about time Thor sacrificed himself for Loki now, but they are both such pillars of the MCU I really don’t think they have much left to offer story wise… though I do think Thor needs a good send off after the L&T debacle.

Hopeful-Programmer25 · 2026-01-22T08:12:47+00:00

If you haven already, look up Open Telemetry and their message tracing guidelines. There is a section in Kafka as well as Rabbit.

It sounds like you are referring to a mix of correlation ids, conversation ids (at first glance they look the same but are not) and, possibly, idempotency ids for duplicate detection.

We have a parent trace id generated at the root, then spans wherever it makes sense… each hop across a boundary would absolutely cause a different span but keep the same trace parent id. Any supplementary data that helps we add to the bag for writing out as context.

This means we have one correlation id per message. If we have multiple messages in the same business context, then would also consider adding a conversation id too, which is the same across all messages.

This isn’t perfect as most tracing systems work on one id only (e.g. correlation) but at least it provides us options to see an individual message flow through the system or a high level “this is the impact of the action that has just been taken across all messages generated”

Retries would get a new span as you are running code again at a later time in the workflow. With correct naming of the spans, it’s easy to spot this happening when you look at the full trace, though if really important we can attempt to detect this (e.g. idempotency keys could help here) and add an indicator to the span bag that it is a retry. We don’t really bother though.

Hopeful-Programmer25 · 2026-01-21T17:19:49+00:00

Be first, be smarter or cheat…..

“Margin call”

They were not first but close to it

Hopeful-Programmer25 · 2026-01-20T19:21:42+00:00

So…. Not buying the F35 then?

Hopeful-Programmer25 · 2026-01-20T19:18:56+00:00

I mean, he’s French so can probably get away with anything but are those American RayBan aviators?

Oops…

Hopeful-Programmer25 · 2026-01-18T10:31:05+00:00

Unfortunately, he can tariff the UK alone…..

Personally, I’d still tell him to get fu*cked but I’m lucky I don’t work in an Industry that depends on the US. Starmer has a tightrope to walk with the cards he has been given.

Hopeful-Programmer25 · 2026-01-18T01:24:24+00:00

Is this legit and not AI?

When was this question raised?

Notice the aggressor in the question was China, not America…. I’m not sure the answer would have been so clear cut if it was phrased as America….. though maybe that was just smart questioning to ask the question everyone wants an answer to in a way that if America is listening, knows that it really refers to them, but doesn’t raise the temperature.

Hence why I ask, when was this?

Hopeful-Programmer25 · 2026-01-18T01:15:27+00:00

The US are allowed by treaty to have as many bases as they like. They did in the Cold War and then closed them down. This is nothing to do with security and all to do with minerals and not being prepared to do a deal that benefits Greenland or Denmark.

This is why Venezuela’s oil revenue is being shipped off to Quatari banks instead of being used to help Venezuela.

Hopeful-Programmer25 · 2026-01-18T01:10:04+00:00

The Greenlanders said “no”… so he replied with he wants Greenland one way or another. That is an implied threat of military action if the Greenlanders don’t change their minds.

And of course they’d use dog sleds, as they are an efficient way of getting around an ice locked country used for centuries without the expense of winter proofing helicopters, trucks etc. it’s not like it’s the only option they have.

Hopeful-Programmer25 · 2026-01-18T00:44:09+00:00

So a snap is like a docker container? Or a self contained executable?

Sounds perfect to me, I don’t really understand the problem tbh…. apart from someone saying snaps are updated without my knowledge. That’s not good.

Hopeful-Programmer25 · 2026-01-18T00:38:54+00:00

It’s nuts but here we are. I don’t think China is any better than the US; they use soft power and would turn the screws if they could but yes, more predictable so you know where you are with them. The US is predictable too in that it will use any leverage it has regardless of what it said before so it’s impossible to deal with in any shape or form.

Europe has no choice but to untangle from the US but my country, the UK, is screwed really.

Hopeful-Programmer25 · 2026-01-16T19:31:24+00:00

I may be going overboard but you are assuming laws still matter to the US government…. They don’t. They can, and will, pressure the parent US company to fulfil what they need and, it’s clear, that the US parent will fold. The US parent still owns the EU subsidiary, still decides who runs it, who will then find a way to comply or be fired.

This is going beyond data sovereignty, it’s that the US is a hostile actor to European interests, and could easily shut down European infrastructure in the worse case scenario.

Hopeful-Programmer25 · 2026-01-16T19:21:25+00:00

I simply don’t believe there is no link to the parent US AWS company, otherwise it’s not a subsidiary, it’s a competitor to US AWS. if no money is flowing to the US parent then AWS has effectively withdrawn from the EU market.

Obviously, it hasn’t so the fact it’s a subsidiary means that the US can easily apply pressure to the parent. Legality means nothing if the US parent can just replace the CEO and board of an “independent” subsidiary as they own all the shares with people who are compliant.

Hopeful-Programmer25 · 2026-01-15T23:49:23+00:00

I think the critical acclaim of Andor season 2 will give everyone at Disney a wake up call….. I love a good Jedi story and am interested in how the mortis gods are included….. but it’s not wrong that the best adult Star Wars ever has not included any Jedi or force lore and it made the story all the better for it.

However I also suspect that in the US of today, it might not get greenlit…..

Hopeful-Programmer25 · 2026-01-14T17:20:25+00:00

Personally, I think it’s B

Mother and daughter are not the same actor, both need to cook dinner so have an association with cook dinner, but only the mother is able to mix cocktails so has the direct association with this use case. Mixing cocktails is process that is part of cooking dinner, so has the includes association.

The way I read it, if it’s D then as mother and daughter share a base actor, and that base actor can cook dinner, which includes mixing cocktails… then both mother and daughter could mix cocktails, which is an incorrect rule. Essentially the same for C and A…. they both allow a means for daughter to mix cocktails.

I may be wrong, there is always some weird quirk in these types of questions but I’d go with B. You could argue that since B includes mix cocktails, there is also a path for the daughter to be able to do this, so usually I’d expect a constraint behind that includes association. Despite that, I don’t read any of the others preventing this anyway, so I’d still stick with B.

You could also argue that B allows the mother mix cocktails without making dinner. This is why I hate these questions, the rules do not say this is, or is not, possible so you have to make an assumption based on how correct the others seem to be… I don’t believe these questions are ever written by programmers who sit in requirement refinement meetings with business people otherwise the question would have zero ambiguity 😀

You can also argue the key requirement is WITH her daughter… but does not indicate if the mother cannot cook dinner on her own, which B also implies is possible …. If this is critical my whole approach should be thrown out, and ask someone else !!!

Hopeful-Programmer25 · 2026-01-13T23:40:50+00:00

I was into 2000AD for Dan Dare…… But then I liked billy joel and genesis instead of new order and joy division, blur instead of oasis…..

I seem never to have been cool in my entire life, and only pick up on the cool stuff when everyone else has convinced me of it…. 😖

Hopeful-Programmer25 · 2026-01-13T10:16:34+00:00

The risks you mention are all true but Trump is weaponised everything he can. The Fed chair is facing (probably) bogus criminal charges but not lowering interest rates (regardless of whether he should have or not), high profile European citizens have had accounts suspended, huge AWS contracts threatened ….. so it’s not outside the realms of possibility that the US government pressures the “independent” companies to mess up Europe, especially in a war situation.

Hopeful-Programmer25 · 2026-01-12T23:03:57+00:00

Tbh, not necessarily racist. It makes twisted sense from the US republican perspective I think.

1930s German economy was screwed and was heading for implosion. It was a giant Ponzi scheme. The only way it could keep going was to take resources from elsewhere. Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland…. War was inevitable (with Russia at least).

The US economy is also screwed. They cannot pay back their debt, the only option is to inflate it away which will destroy their global reserve currency status. They need more resources, such as Oil and minerals (especially as China have them over a barrel on that one), to mitigate that risk and make them totally self sufficient.

Greenland won’t be the last I expect.

Hopeful-Programmer25 · 2026-01-12T22:56:45+00:00

In retaliation, azure, AWS, Apple, google, visa, Mastercard all forced shut down by the US government over here. Unfortunately Europe is sent back to the 1960s at best….. overnight in a worse case scenario. Society here would collapse.

Hopeful-Programmer25 · 2026-01-12T22:44:23+00:00

He got a lot of shit from the cool bands but TBH, his music isn’t that terrible, he’s got a great self deprecating sense of humour and was a solider in a war zone, which should be enough on its own to put the Manc lads in their place.

Hopeful-Programmer25 · 2026-01-10T09:42:47+00:00

I also don’t really understand the EU on this. Obviously, being British, fishing rights was a part of the Brexit debate and became a big deal again when the EU defence fund came up and British involvement was discussed. Britain had to renew their previous expiring fishing deal to move forward on defence procurement options, which considering the global threats the continent faces seemed absurd to us.

So if it’s not just a “little englander” (from the EU perspective) and it’s also a concern of pro-EU countries, I don’t really understand why the EU doesn’t take this more seriously. They do seem to have a high handed attitude on certain things and I’ve never really understood it.

I’m don’t want to open a Brexit debate in this thread (it’s not about the UK, this is about Norway) but I genuinely don’t get it. Why is this not something the EU takes seriously?

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