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The Art of Forking: Unlocking Scalability in Ruby — Karafka (a Ruby processing framework for Apache Kafka) requires concurrency and parallelism, which can present challenges in Ruby. The explanations here of how Karafka uses Ruby’s constructs is informative and shows that you don’t necessarily need to use another language to address issues of concurrency.

Karafka Framework 2.3 + Web UI 0.8 — Karafka provides a lot of valuable structure when using the Apache Kafka event streaming platform with Ruby and Rails apps. v2.3 adds support for Kafka’s ‘exactly once’ semantics, enhanced multiplexing, periodic jobs, and full error backtraces can now be viewed in the open source version of the Web UI.