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A fundamental challenge with today’s “data explosion” is finding the best answer to the question, “So where do I put my data?” while avoiding the longer-term problem of data warehouses,

If you want to enable your organization to leverage the full value of event-driven architectures, it is not enough to just integrate Apache Kafka® and wait for people to join

As described in the blog post Apache Kafka® Needs No Keeper: Removing the Apache ZooKeeper Dependency, when KIP-500 lands next year, Apache Kafka will replace its usage of Apache ZooKeeper

Apache Kafka® is a distributed real-time processing platform that allows for the ingestion of huge volumes of data. ksqlDB is part of the Kafka ecosystem and offers a SQL-like language

It’s important to be able to limit memory consumption of a running service. Use too much, and your application will crash and need to restart. If this happens too often,

Every organization that exposes its services online is subject to the interest of malicious actors. The ongoing struggle with botnets, crawlers, script kiddies, and bounty hunters is challenging and requires

Apache Kafka® is an event streaming platform used by more than 30% of the Fortune 500 today. There are numerous features of Kafka that make it the de-facto standard for

With the release of Confluent Platform 6.0, we officially made Tiered Storage generally available. At launch, we supported two major cloud-specific object stores: Amazon S3 and Google Cloud Storage. Today,

All around the world, companies are asking the same question: What is happening right now? We are inundated with pieces of data that have a fragment of the answer. But

It’s 3:00 am and PagerDuty keeps firing you alerts about your application being down. You need to figure out what the issue is, if it’s impacting users, and resolve it