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Sam Barker

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Principal software engineer at Red Hat (all opinions are mine, not theirs) working in the Kafka ecosystem: Mostly throwing bytes around with JVM’s as fast as possible. Part of the team behind Kroxylicious.io

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Scaling for the Future: Evolving Kroxylicious Governance Hot on the heels of the release of Kroxylicious 0.19.0 we have some other news to share. We are excited to announce a shift in how we manage the project, partly based on the proven model used by the A...

Kroxylicious is a growing project so we are looking to scale things up, check out our latest blog post for the full details kroxylicious.io/2026/03/04/e...

04.03.2026 22:59 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

As fun as it is to make these releases (and they really are a team effort, should have heard the swearing to get this one out) its even more fun to hear from people using the proxy to solve real problems they have.

04.03.2026 00:13 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Kroxylicious release 0.18.0 The Kroxylicious project is very pleased to announce the release of Kroxylicious 0.18.0. See the Changelog for a list of changes and summary of Deprecations, Changes and Removals.

The Kroxylicious projects is excited to announce v0.18.0.

This release focused on supporting authentication both from the broker and in proxy!

Release announcement: kroxylicious.io/blog/kroxyli...

GitHub: github.com/kroxylicious...
Maven Central: central.sonatype.com/search?q=g:i...

03.12.2025 04:09 👍 1 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Kroxylicious release 0.17.1 The Kroxylicious project is very pleased to announce the release of Kroxylicious 0.17.1. See the Changelog for a list of changes and summary of Deprecations, Changes and Removals.

Kroxylicious is pleased to announce that 0.17.1[1] is now generally available!

This is a patch release to allow older librdkafka clients to enable compression.

We are working on many more interesting features in v0.18.0

[1] kroxylicious.io/blog/kroxyli...

07.11.2025 03:51 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

The Kroxylicious project is very pleased to announce the release of v0.16.0 bit.ly/3IpOflV. Main changes bit.ly/4o3Eby5 are Kafka 4.1 compatibility and observabilty improvements. Happy proxying🐊.

01.10.2025 15:11 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Kroxylicious release 0.15.0 The Kroxylicious project is very pleased to announce the release of Kroxylicious 0.15.0. See the Changelog for a list of changes and summary of Deprecations, Changes and Removals.

Kroxylicious 0.15.0 released

This is a fast-tracked release to address a key resilience issue:
- Improved Bootstrap Resilience: The proxy now defaults to round-robin between brokers in bootstrapServers.
- New record encryption 🔒quickstart
Check out the full details kroxylicious.io/blog/kroxyli...

18.08.2025 06:48 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Getting into the auth space opens up so many more potential filters and use cases, we're really excited what we can do here but please do come have your say

08.08.2025 09:33 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

A lot of hard work has gone into this, I really hope it simplifies getting the proxy working on Kubernetes

23.06.2025 20:09 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Kafka Encryption for Cardholder Data: Solving PCI Challenges with Kroxylicious Encrypt Kafka messages at rest without changing app code — using Kroxylicious and OpenBao to meet PCI encryption requirements.

It’s great to see someone organically recognise the value of Record Encryption. mostafahussein.medium.com/kafka-encryp...

22.06.2025 19:32 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Kroxylicious release 0.12.0 The Kroxylicious project is very pleased to announce the release of Kroxylicious 0.12.0. See the Changelog for a list of changes and summary of Deprecations, Changes and Removals.

Whats that? You want a version of Kroxylicious thats supports Kafka 4? We got ya! kroxylicious.io/blog/kroxyli...

#apacheKafka

12.05.2025 01:49 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Kroxylicious joins the Commonhaus foundation The Kroxylicious team are pleased to announce the project is now part of the Commonhaus foundation. We believe this is an important step in providing a stable basis for you, our community, to build ar...

Yay! We are now part of the @commonhaus.org family! kroxylicious.io/commonhaus/2...

22.04.2025 08:53 👍 9 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
kroxylicious-junit5-extension release 0.11.0 The Kroxylicious project is very pleased to announce the 0.11.0 release of our Junit5 Extension. This release introduces support for Apache Kafka 4.0. Support for earlier versions of Kafka is maintain...

New Release: kroxylicious.io/releases/jun... our JUnit extension nows supports Kafka 4.0.0 (along with older versions and Zookeeper).
#ApacheKafka #UnitTesting

01.04.2025 20:42 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Kroxylicious release 0.11.0 The Kroxylicious project is very pleased to announce the release of Kroxylicious 0.11.0. See the Changelog for a list of changes and summary of Deprecations, Changes and Removals.

The Kroxylicious project is very pleased to announce the release of Kroxylicious 0.11.0. bit.ly/4iCP0nZ

The main change - a revamped configuration file. This will have you up and running in a.... snap🐊! We've also added new policy controls to Record Encryption.

20.03.2025 14:59 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Kroxylicious, Kafka Record Encryption and the Power of Proxies | Callista Callista Enterprise - seniora IT-arkitekter och systemutvecklare inom Java, öppen källkod, agil utveckling och systemintegration

We’ve been spotted swimming in the wild. callistaenterprise.se/blogg/teknik...
Really pleased to see people noticing the effort we are putting into simplifying developing and deployment as we go along!

28.02.2025 19:03 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Kroxylicious release 0.10.0 The Kroxylicious project is very pleased to announce the release of Kroxylicious 0.10.0. See the Changelog for a list of changes and summary of Deprecations, Changes and Removals.

The Kroxylicious project is as pleased as always to announce v0.10.0 kroxylicious.io/blog/kroxyli....

This release tightens our security posture by allowing more control over the TLS protocol & ciphers used when accepting and making connections. We also add support for Fortanix DSM as a Key manager

02.02.2025 03:36 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Very pleased to say that I did it and with time to spare! I ran 1000 miles this year!

21.12.2024 15:03 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Well that was a fun way to discover exactly how Kafka evolves ApiVersions...

18.12.2024 00:20 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

How was the weather on approach, for forecast is a bit rough for my landing tomorrow.

02.12.2024 06:16 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Greetings from Monday evening. Stuff got done. Tests even passed it was successful😀

25.11.2024 08:49 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

12 hours in the air plus 6 ish layover in Sydney…

It’s what I get for living at the bottom of the earth!

13.11.2024 21:17 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Haha yeah, still taking me 18hours to get there…

13.11.2024 20:58 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

See you there!

13.11.2024 19:45 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0