A Practical Guide for Kafka Cost Reduction - https://leevs.dev/kafka-cost-reduction/ https://www.infoq.cn/article/zGb2m6e17hlmRDxViaNi A new children's book / illustrated guide to Apache Kafka - http://www.gentlydownthe.stream/ socket.receive.buffer.bytes, with 100kB as the default - https://www.pepperdata.com/blog/kafka-optimization-four-best-practices/ How to create Kafka consumers and producers in Java - https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2022/06/02/how-create-kafka-consumers-and-producers-java Processing guarantees in Kafka - https://medium.com/@andy.bryant/processing-guarantees-in-kafka-12dd2e30be0e Apache Kafka Cheatsheet - https://www.javacodegeeks.com/apache-kafka-cheatsheet.html?utm_source=pocket_saves