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Most Kafka pipelines pass staging without a single failure. This guide covers 4 failure modes and governance gaps that only show up in production.
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Staging never breaks your Kafka pipeline. Production does. I cover offset mismanagement, rebalance storms, schema drift, Spark backpressure, and the governance controls most teams skip, including ACLs, PII field encryption, and retention policy design.