{"product_id":"thaddeus-kafka-streaming-engineer","title":"Thaddeus — Event-Driven Architecture \u0026 Kafka Streaming Engineer AI Skill","description":"\u003cdiv style=\"font-family: 'DM Sans', sans-serif; color: #1A1A18; max-width: 680px;\"\u003e\n  \u003cp style=\"font-size: 16px; font-weight: 600; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0 0 8px 0;\"\u003eDrop Thaddeus into Claude and get a Senior Kafka Streaming Engineer who states the ordering, retention, and delivery guarantee a topic actually needs before it gets created.\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003cp style=\"font-size: 13px; color: #555550; line-height: 1.7; margin: 0 0 28px 0;\"\u003eThaddeus covers the full event-driven build cycle on Apache Kafka and Confluent: partition key and count sizing tied to real throughput and ordering needs, schema registry setup with an explicit compatibility mode, stream processing topology in Kafka Streams or ksqlDB with real windowing, event sourcing pattern design with a validated replay contract, consumer group scaling and rebalancing tuning, and exactly-once semantics reserved for cases that genuinely require it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003cdiv style=\"background: #E9F7EA; border-radius: 12px; padding: 24px 28px; margin-bottom: 24px;\"\u003e\n    \u003cp style=\"font-size: 10px; font-weight: 600; color: #29A333; letter-spacing: 0.08em; text-transform: uppercase; margin: 0 0 16px 0;\"\u003eWhat you get\u003c\/p\u003e\n    \u003cul style=\"margin: 0; padding: 0; list-style: none;\"\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"font-size: 13px; padding: 7px 0; border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(41,163,51,0.14); display: flex; gap: 10px;\"\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"color:#29A333; font-weight:600;\"\u003e→\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePartition key chosen for the actual ordering guarantee required, not maximum parallelism\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"font-size: 13px; padding: 7px 0; border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(41,163,51,0.14); display: flex; gap: 10px;\"\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"color:#29A333; font-weight:600;\"\u003e→\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePartition count sized from real throughput math, not a round number\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"font-size: 13px; padding: 7px 0; border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(41,163,51,0.14); display: flex; gap: 10px;\"\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"color:#29A333; font-weight:600;\"\u003e→\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSchema Registry compatibility mode stated explicitly for every topic\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"font-size: 13px; padding: 7px 0;  display: flex; gap: 10px;\"\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"color:#29A333; font-weight:600;\"\u003e→\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eExactly-once semantics reserved for cases where duplicate processing causes real harm\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003c\/ul\u003e\n  \u003c\/div\u003e\n  \u003cdiv style=\"display:flex; align-items:center; gap:20px; background:#FFFFFF; border:1px solid #E8E6E0; border-radius:8px; padding:14px 20px; margin-bottom:24px;\"\u003e\n    \u003cspan style=\"font-size:11px; color:#888780; font-family:monospace;\"\u003e📄 thaddeus-kafka-streaming-engineer.skill\u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003cspan style=\"font-size:11px; color:#888780;\"\u003eUnder 2 min install\u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003cspan style=\"font-size:11px; color:#888780;\"\u003eWorks with Claude, ChatGPT \u0026amp; any AI chat\u003c\/span\u003e\n  \u003c\/div\u003e\n  \u003cdiv style=\"border-left:3px solid #29A333; padding-left:16px;\"\u003e\n    \u003cp style=\"font-size:10px; font-weight:600; color:#29A333; letter-spacing:0.08em; text-transform:uppercase; margin:0 0 6px 0;\"\u003eHow to install\u003c\/p\u003e\n    \u003cp style=\"font-size:12px; color:#555550; line-height:1.7; margin:0;\"\u003eDownload the .skill package → open Claude → paste SKILL.md into your Project Instructions or system prompt → describe your requirement → Thaddeus builds the answer. Includes a full worked example so you see exactly what you get.\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"KissMySkills","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58365384294664,"sku":null,"price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1036\/1444\/7880\/files\/fn39-thaddeus-kafka-streaming-engineer-nf.png?v=1785925495","url":"https:\/\/kissmyskills.com\/products\/thaddeus-kafka-streaming-engineer","provider":"KissMySkills","version":"1.0","type":"link"}