In this video I go through the new features in Apache Kafka 2.7, it is very interesting to see the amount of work Apache Kafka is doing to get closer to removing ZooKeeper 

 *  [KAFKA-9893] - Configurable TCP connection timeout and improve the initial metadata fetch * [KAFKA-9915] - Throttle Create Topic, Create Partition and Delete Topic Operations * [KAFKA-10054] - Add TRACE-level end-to-end latency metrics to Streams * [KAFKA-10259] - KIP-554: Add Broker-side SCRAM Config API * [KAFKA-10338] - Support PEM format for SSL certificates and private key   https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/kafka/2.7.0/RELEASE_NOTES.html https://blogs.apache.org/kafka/entry/what-s-new-in-apache4 Confluence Mobile - Apache Software Foundation