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What are the most important things you learned from building Apache Kafka? This question was originally answered on Quora by Jay Kreps.
These days, massively scalable pub/sub messaging is virtually synonymous with Apache Kafka. Apache Kafka continues to be the rock-solid, open-source, go-to choice for distributed streaming ...
Having been thrust into the spotlight by IBM last week, Apache Kafka is getting so much attention that it’s threatening to surpass Apache Spark as Big Data’s tech du jour and become a ...
Apache Kafka is a key component in data pipeline architectures when it comes to ingesting data. Confluent, the commercial entity behind Kafka, wants to leverage this position to become a platform ...
Organizations building real-time stream processing systems on Apache Kafka will be able to trust the platform to deliver each messages exactly once when they adopt new Kafka technology planned to be ...
How Does Kafka Compare to Flume? Often mentioned in the same breath as Kafka is Flume, another open-source project from the Apache Foundation. So how do these two stream processing frameworks compare?
Today on the InfoQ Podcast, Wes Reisz speaks withColin McCabe about Apache Kafka’s KRaft mode. KRaft mode is the new operating mode of Apache Kafka released with 3.3.1 and is the new target ...
Streaming data platform Kafka uses a “publish-and-subscribe” model that links data sources to data receivers to enable constant and distributed monitoring.
Data startup Confluent has Silicon Valley buzzing about its Apache Kafka software. Here's 3 reasons why its cofounders were able to successfully incubate their idea while at LinkedIn.