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Just how fast does a crocodile swim? New post: measuring the overhead Kroxylicious adds to Apache Kafka. Passthrough: below measurement noise. Record encryption: ~25% throughput hit, but Kafka never sees the plaintext. Open source benchmark harness — run it yourself. kroxylicious.io/benchmarking...

kroxylicious.ioDoes my proxy look big in this cluster?Every good benchmarking story starts with a hunch. Mine was that Kroxylicious is cheap to run — I’d stake my career on it, in fact — but it turns out that “trust me, I wrote it” is not a widely accept...

28/5/26, 8:58 am1 repost5 likes

@methiaff.bsky.social

good that the kroxylicious benchmark harness is open source. makes it simple to check for yourself.

@samturtelbarker.bsky.social

Yup, I took great pains to try and make sure the numbers could be repeated on other people’s hardware. I’d love to hear if you attempt it!

rmoff 🏃‍♂️🫖🥓

could be interesting to try it with @vanlightly.bsky.social's Dimster too (jack-vanlightly.com/blog/2026/5/...)

jack-vanlightly.comIntroducing Dimster, a performance benchmarking tool for Apache Kafka — Jack VanlightlyMost of my career in distributed systems has been as a tester, performance engineer and formal verification specialist. I’ve written performance benchmarking tools in the past, for RabbitMQ and Apache...