We are excited for the general availability of Kafka release 0.11.0.0, which brings new features such as Exactly Once Semantics, providing more stringent idempotent producer semantics with exactly once delivery per partition and stronger transactional guarantees. The recent Apache Kafka Report showed that 37% of adopters are using the Kafka Connect API to load data from other systems into Kafka and extract Kafka data into other systems. We also released Apache Kafka 3.8.0, which contains many new features and improvements. To engage with the Kafka community, we invite you to join Google Group, Slack, Reddit, LinkedIn, Twitter, or attend a Kafka Meetup group in your area. Additionally, we'll be building an app using the confluent-kafka-javascript client to demonstrate the debate on tabs versus spaces.