David Arthur

Build Timeouts Well, it works on my machine...

All developers know the pain of stuck tests and build timeouts. In my latest Substack post, I talk about how Apache Kafka uses a little command-line magic in GitHub Actions to automatically capture thread dumps in stuck builds.

Check it out mumrah.substack.com/p/build-time...

It’s far too easy to die from falling off a ladder

David on Substack Hey everyone, I’ve got a new KIP up for using GitHub’s merge queue for Apache Kafka. I think this will really help our development velocity while keeping trunk safe. Check it out: https://cwiki.apache...

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Build Isolation in Apache Kafka Waiting in line. Noisy neighbors. No thanks!

How Apache Kafka escaped the quagmire of Jenkins

mumrah.substack.com/p/build-isol...

10 Years of building Apache Kafka A New Year, a new build system.

A new year, a new blog.

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It's alive!

(Fizzbee Kafka txns spec with InitPidRequest and response)