---
title: "All Posts - Calinora Blog"
description: "Every Calinora blog post, newest first"
url: "https://blog.calinora.io/posts/"
---

# All Posts

## [1,000 Clusters, One Engine, No Tuning](https://blog.calinora.io/posts/proposal-engine-at-scale/)

May 23, 2026

We pointed one proposal engine at 1,000 randomly generated Kafka clusters - three brokers to a thousand, a thousand partitions to a million, every rack and replication shape we could think of. No per-cluster tuning. Here is how little the answer moves when you move everything else.

[kafka](https://blog.calinora.io/tags/kafka/) [rebalancing](https://blog.calinora.io/tags/rebalancing/) [performance](https://blog.calinora.io/tags/performance/) [product](https://blog.calinora.io/tags/product/)

## [Replacing a Kafka Broker Without Under-Replicated Partitions](https://blog.calinora.io/posts/replace-a-kafka-broker-without-under-replication/)

May 12, 2026

Just shutting down a broker that's getting replaced means hours of running with thousands of under-replicated partitions. Pilot's maintenance endpoint drains the broker first - one API call, no manual replica planning.

[kafka](https://blog.calinora.io/tags/kafka/) [operations](https://blog.calinora.io/tags/operations/) [maintenance](https://blog.calinora.io/tags/maintenance/) [api](https://blog.calinora.io/tags/api/)

## [Pilot Agent: When Metadata Isn't Enough](https://blog.calinora.io/posts/pilot-agent-when-metadata-isnt-enough/)

May 6, 2026

Pilot started as a metadata-only Kafka tool. The new Pilot Agent is opt-in, lives next to your broker, and unlocks what the protocol cannot show.

[announcement](https://blog.calinora.io/tags/announcement/) [kafka](https://blog.calinora.io/tags/kafka/) [product](https://blog.calinora.io/tags/product/) [agent](https://blog.calinora.io/tags/agent/)

## [From Alert to Fix in 60 Seconds: AI-Powered Kafka Operations](https://blog.calinora.io/posts/ai-powered-kafka-operations-with-mcp/)

March 12, 2026

How Pilot's MCP-powered AI agent traced slow order processing to a disk-hot broker, rebalanced the affected topic, and resolved consumer lag - all through natural language with human approval gates.

[kafka](https://blog.calinora.io/tags/kafka/) [mcp](https://blog.calinora.io/tags/mcp/) [ai](https://blog.calinora.io/tags/ai/) [product](https://blog.calinora.io/tags/product/)

## [Calinora Pilot Documentation is Live](https://blog.calinora.io/posts/documentation-site-launch/)

March 12, 2026

We've published comprehensive documentation for Calinora Pilot at docs.calinora.io - getting started guides, feature deep-dives, deployment recipes, and a full API reference.

[announcement](https://blog.calinora.io/tags/announcement/) [documentation](https://blog.calinora.io/tags/documentation/)

## [Introducing Calinora Pilot: A Simpler Alternative to Cruise Control](https://blog.calinora.io/posts/introducing-calinora-pilot/)

March 12, 2026

Every Kafka team hits the same wall. Broker load drifts, partitions need moving, and figuring out what's safe takes too long. That's why we built Pilot.

[announcement](https://blog.calinora.io/tags/announcement/) [kafka](https://blog.calinora.io/tags/kafka/) [product](https://blog.calinora.io/tags/product/)

## [Welcome to the Calinora Blog](https://blog.calinora.io/posts/welcome-to-calinora-blog/)

March 12, 2026

Introducing the Calinora blog - your source for product updates, Kafka best practices, and technical deep-dives.

[announcement](https://blog.calinora.io/tags/announcement/)