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Scott Treggiari2026-08-12T15:02:39-04:00August 12th, 2026|
Troubleshooting Protobuf Kafka Records Without Building a Custom Consumer
This is Part 5 of a 5-part series exploring The Protobuf Visibility Gap in Kafka Operations | Previous Article A custom Kafka consumer is often the first troubleshooting idea when a team needs to inspect Protobuf data. The logic appears simple: obtain the schema, connect to the topic, deserialize the record, and print the fields. In practice, […]
Scott Treggiari2026-08-12T15:01:37-04:00August 12th, 2026|
Confluent Message Browser vs. Infrared360: Two Protobuf Inspection Workflows This is Part 4 of a 5-part series exploring The Protobuf Visibility Gap in Kafka Operations | Previous Article | Next Article A useful product comparison starts by acknowledging the overlap. Confluent Cloud’s message browser and Confluent Platform Control Center can display, filter, validate, download, and produce Kafka messages. They support schema-based workflows […]
Scott Treggiari2026-08-12T15:00:21-04:00August 12th, 2026|
Why Risk and Operations Teams Inspect Business Values Inside Kafka Records This is Part 3 of a 5-part series exploring The Protobuf Visibility Gap in Kafka Operations | Previous Article | Next Article A risk or operations team does not inspect Kafka message content merely because the technology makes it possible. The team inspects content when the business needs evidence that a […]
Scott Treggiari2026-08-12T14:59:04-04:00August 12th, 2026|
Kafka Monitoring Can Show the Symptom. Protobuf Record Inspection Can Reveal the Cause This is Part 2 of a 5-part series exploring The Protobuf Visibility Gap in Kafka Operations | Previous Article | Next Article Kafka operations teams depend on monitoring because distributed streaming systems can fail in many ways. Brokers can become unavailable, partitions can lose preferred leaders, consumers can lag, […]
Scott Treggiari2026-08-12T15:04:40-04:00August 12th, 2026|
Protobuf Visibility Without Schema Registry: A More Flexible Way to Inspect Kafka Records This is Part 1 of a 5-part series exploring The Protobuf Visibility Gap in Kafka Operations | Next Article
Protocol Buffers, usually called Protobuf, give development teams an efficient way to serialize structured data. A .proto file defines the fields, types, and relationships that make the binary data meaningful. The tradeoff is that […]
Scott Treggiari2026-08-05T14:22:29-04:00August 5th, 2026|
IBM MQ REST API Security: Automate MQ Without Losing RBAC
REST APIs are changing how teams manage enterprise middleware. For IBM MQ teams, that can be a very good thing. REST and Swagger-style API documentation make it easier to script common actions, integrate with change systems, reduce manual work, and give operations teams faster ways to interact with MQ environments.
But there is a catch.
The question is not simply, “Can we […]
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