Introducing Dimster, a performance benchmarking tool for Apache Kafka

Most 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 Pulsar but in recent years I’ve used OpenMessagingBenchmark (OMB) to run benchmarks against Apache Kafka and other messaging systems. But OMB is hard to deploy and has several limitations compared to…