Kroxylicious, the snappy open source proxy for Apache Kafka®
Joined November 2023
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We promised more details on how we got those Kroxylicious numbers kroxylicious.io/benchmarking…
Short version: we built a second cluster because the first one was lying to us.
Full story: kroxylicious.io/benchmarking…
#ApacheKafka #OpenSource
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May 28
How much does a Layer 7 Apache Kafka® proxy cost? We measured it.
Passthrough: below measurement noise. Record encryption: ~25% throughput reduction — Kafka never sees the plaintext.
Benchmark harness is open source. Run it on your own cluster.#ApacheKafka kroxylicious.io/benchmarking…
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May 21
Big news: kroxylicious.io/blog/kroxyli…
While we've had ideas around routing, one virtual cluster fronting multiple target clusters, for a while we have recently turned them into something tangible!
Check out the blog & tell us how that fits your use cases, what things it allows you!
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May 18
Kroxylicious 0.21.0 has been released. Check out the video and blog!
📺youtu.be/BuDJfMufm60?si=_ySP…
kroxylicious.io/blog/kroxyli…
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Kroxylicious Record Encryption: Shifting the Trust Boundary youtu.be/A8bzSyHm8NA?si=Oay8…
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The Kroxylicious team is pleased to announce the 0.20.0 release (kroxylicious.io/blog/kroxyli…).
Significant new features include a new Connection Expiration filter, Entity Isolation filter, and OpenShift Route integration.
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Mar 24
Sam just added a couple of items to the community call agenda for this week.
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Mar 24
If there is anything else you would like to see on the agenda please do reply here or leave a comment on the agenda doc. So if you have any questions or comments for the Kroxylicious team. Come along and say hi! (we will have a more North American friendly call in 2 weeks)
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Kroxylicious is the snappy open source proxy for Apache Kafka®.
See how it works in 3 minutes:
youtu.be/xLOjKScpJ3Q
#ApacheKafka #Kroxylicious #EventStreaming #DataEngineering
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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…
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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…
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As always the Kroxylicious team are very pleased to announce the release the 0.19.0 release (kroxylicious.io/blog/kroxyli…). Kroxylicious will now bite down on Kafka 4.2 RPC calls, snack on idle connections and other quality of life improvements.
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As always the Kroxylicious team are very pleased to announce the release the 0.19.0 release (kroxylicious.io/blog/kroxyli…).
Kroxylicious will now bite down on Kafka 4.2 RPC calls, snack on idle connections and other quality of life improvements.
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Feb 18
New Release: kroxylicious.io/releases/jun…. We’ve refreshed our dependencies, including an essential upgrade to Apache Kafka 4.2.0. We’ve also smoothed out the setup process, ensuring the new Kafka Queues feature works seamlessly straight out of the box.
#ApacheKafka #UnitTesting
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3 Dec 2025
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/krox…
Maven Central: central.sonatype.com/search?…
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12 Nov 2025
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…
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