Mahesh Aravind

SDE @One2N

Mahesh enjoys the moment a pipeline stops being mysterious and starts being measurable. Patience with stack traces and broker configs is his default mode.

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Shooting ourselves in the foot by enabling Spring Kafka batching

Mahesh Aravind

SDE @One2N

We enabled Spring Kafka batch listeners to improve throughput and broke non-blocking retries. Here is how Kafka producer batching (batch.size, linger.ms) actually solved our problem and when batch listeners are the right choice.

March 16, 2026 | 4 min read

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