https://tushar-c23.github.io/tags/apache-camel/Recent content in Apache-Camel on Tushar ChoudharyHugoen-usSat, 15 Aug 2026 10:00:00 +0530https://tushar-c23.github.io/posts/camel-uri-normalization/Sat, 15 Aug 2026 10:00:00 +0530https://tushar-c23.github.io/posts/camel-uri-normalization/<p>We recently shipped a fix at work for a Kafka producer leak: a URI was being built with the record key baked into it, so every distinct key produced a distinct Camel endpoint, and every endpoint got its own <code>KafkaProducer</code>, its own network thread, and its own 10-thread worker pool. One string, hundreds of producers.</p> <p>Fixing it was easy. Understanding <em>why</em> Camel behaved that way sent me into <code>camel-core</code>, and on the way I tripped over something I haven&rsquo;t seen written down anywhere.</p>