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Data Products, Data Contracts, and Change Data Capture
Change data capture is a popular method to connect database tables to data streams, but it comes with drawbacks. The next evolution of the CDC pattern, first-class data products, provide resilient pipelines that support both real-time and batch processing while isolating upstream systems...
Introducing Confluent Cloud Freight Clusters
Learn how the latest innovations in Kora enable us to introduce new Confluent Cloud Freight clusters, which can save you up to 90% at GBps+ scale. Confluent Cloud Freight clusters are now available in Early Access.
Contributing to Apache Kafka®: How to Write a KIP
Learn how to contribute to open source Apache Kafka by writing Kafka Improvement Proposals (KIPs) that solve problems and add features! Read on for real examples.
Building a Microservices Ecosystem with Kafka Streams and KSQL
Today, we invariably operate in ecosystems: groups of applications and services which together work towards some higher level business goal. When we make these systems event-driven they come with a […]
Taking KSQL for a Spin Using Real-time Device Data
We are pleased to invite Tom Underhill to join us as a guest blogger. Tom is Head of R&D at Rittman Mead, a data and analytics company who specialise in […]
Apache Kafka Goes 1.0
It has been seven years since we first set out to create the distributed streaming platform we know now as Apache Kafka®. Born initially as a highly scalable messaging system, […]
The London Kafka Summit 2018 Call for Papers is Open!
After three successful Kafka Summits in the United States in 2016 and 2017, we decided the Kafka community was ready to have a Summit in London. And based on the […]
Running Kafka Streams Applications in AWS
This guest blog post is the second in a series about the use of Apache Kafka’s Streams API by Zalando, Europe’s largest online fashion retailer. See Ranking Websites in Real-time […]
Ranking Websites in Real-time with Apache Kafka’s Streams API
This article is by Hunter Kelly, Technical Architect at Zalando. Hunter enjoys using technology, and in particular machine learning, to solve difficult problems. He’s a graduate of the University of […]
Predicting Flight Arrivals with the Apache Kafka Streams API
Kafka Streams makes it easy to write scalable, fault-tolerant, and real-time production apps and microservices. This post builds upon a previous post that covered scalable machine learning with Apache Kafka, […]
Getting Started Analyzing Twitter Data in Apache Kafka through KSQL
KSQL is the streaming SQL engine for Apache Kafka®. It lets you do sophisticated stream processing on Kafka topics, easily, using a simple and interactive SQL interface. In this short […]
Using Kafka Streams API for Predictive Budgeting
At Pinterest, we use Kafka Streams API to provide inflight spend data to thousands of ads servers in mere seconds. Our ads engineering team works hard to ensure we’re providing […]
How to Build and Deploy Scalable Machine Learning in Production with Apache Kafka
Scalable Machine Learning in Production with Apache Kafka® Intelligent real time applications are a game changer in any industry. Machine learning and its sub-topic, deep learning, are gaining momentum because […]
Disaster Recovery for Multi-Datacenter Apache Kafka Deployments
Datacenter downtime and data loss can result in businesses losing a vast amount of revenue or entirely halting operations. To minimize the downtime and data loss resulting from a disaster, […]
Crossing the Streams – Joins in Apache Kafka
This post was originally published at the Codecentric blog with a focus on “old” join semantics in Apache Kafka versions 0.10.0 and 0.10.1. Version 0.10.0 of the popular distributed streaming […]
It's Okay To Store Data In Kafka
A question people often ask about Apache Kafka® is whether it is okay to use it for longer term storage. Kafka, as you might know, stores a log of records, […]
How Apache Kafka is Tested
Introduction Apache Kafka® is used in thousands of companies, including some of the most demanding, large scale, and critical systems in the world. Its largest users run Kafka across thousands […]