Breaking Kafka Immutability: Are you mad?

Who hasn't had to reset the offset of a consumer group to skip a defective record? You must stop your applications, identify the malformed records, adjust the offsets of the consumer groups reading this topic using some tools, and then restart everything. That's quite cumbersome, right?Have you ever dreamed of breaking Apache Kafka's immutability to delete or fix a record instead of juggling consumer offsets? What if I tell you that it's possible?

In this talk, we'll explore why Kafka's immutability is its greatest strength and how it can be acceptable to break it to resolve production issues.