With help of the GraalVM configuration developed for KIP-974 (Docker Image for GraalVM based Native Kafka Broker), you can easily build a self-contained native binary for Apache Kafka. Read on to learn how you can build a native Kafka executable yourself, starting in milli-seconds, making it a perfect fit for development and testing purposes. When I wrote about ahead-of-time class loading and linking in Java 24 recently, I also published the start-up time for Apache Kafka as a native binary f...
