Roadmap

Current progress and the post-MVP milestones.

The rebuild is intentionally phased. Each milestone leaves the project in a usable, reviewable state.

Completed

• Foundation stabilization for dashboard, CI, Docker, and documentation
• Dependency modernization onto a supported Next.js stack
• Replay CLI prototype for closed offset-range replay
• Phase 2 safety work: dry-run preview and replay metadata headers
• Phase 3 replay jobs with local SQLite persistence
• Phase 4 replay API for job creation, preview, start, cancel, and status reads
• Phase 5 replay UI for draft creation, preview, start, and monitoring
• Phase 6 timestamp-to-offset replay for incident windows
• Phase 6 message-per-second throttling for replay writes
• Phase 6 richer progress metrics for replay jobs
• Phase 6 running-job cancellation
• Phase 6.5 MVP acceptance pass

Next

1. Alpha release quality control
2. Replay-specific filtering and comparison
3. Replay estimates and richer incident workflows

Phase 6.5 Acceptance Pass

• Confirm offset replay works end to end
• Confirm timestamp replay works end to end
• Confirm dry-run preview never produces destination records
• Confirm source and destination topic safety rules prevent replay loops
• Confirm local Docker sample, external Kafka, and Confluent Cloud docs are accurate
• Confirm README and GitHub Pages match the actual application

A summary of the checklist and verification commands is published in the MVP acceptance guide; the full runbook lives in docs/MVP_ACCEPTANCE.md in the repo.

Near-Term Non-Goals

• multi-cluster replay
• auth and RBAC
• schema registry integration
• exactly-once replay guarantees
• predictive analytics and automated root cause features

The markdown version of this plan lives in docs/ROADMAP.md.