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Integrating AI Into Apache Kafka Architectures: Patterns and Best Practices
When integrating LLMs with Apache Kafka, use Kafka strictly as a durable event backbone and keep all model inference outside the broker. Use one of three main inference patterns (external RPC, embedded models like ONNX/TFLite, or sidecar), and follow best practices for topic design (raw-events → enriched-context → model-outputs), replayability, dead-letter queues, idempotency, and cost/latency/governance considerations.
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