Ryan Slominski

**Note**: this enhancement may apply mainly to topics with compaction enabled as compaction functions on the message key. If using the delete cleanup policy simply dropping the type from the...

Given that the Schema Registry is already responsible or participates in enforcing many database-like constraints for Kafka it seems reasonable to support composite key constraints, which are not an application...

> Kafka is not the database, though, RocksDB is. Kafka is the database - it is the persistent permanent store and the source of truth when using cleanup policy compact...

Related: https://github.com/confluentinc/ksql/issues/5091.

I noticed there are a lot of projects that wrap librdkafka - it might be better to simply replace the build/install librdkafka section of all these README.md files to simply...

I guess Windows wheels only works with Python 3.8 at the moment? Or maybe I need to re-install a few things? I'm on Python 3.9. Working through the Developer notes...

Might want to update the project contributing guide for Windows users to explicitly indicate they must use Python 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, or 3.9 but not 3.10 wheels as it don't...

@edenhill Couldn't get `pip install .` to work for me. It just ran the legacy build (no wheel), but still unit tests didn't work. Experimenting some more it looks like...

A better solution is probably to update setup.py to conditionally download pre-complied extension instead of running C++ compile. It could copy pre-compiled extension into the `src` directory such that develop...

@rigelbm - Is there any documentation on the new features? Is it included in the newest release? Specifically, how do we consume from a topic that has a String key...