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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 […]

We saw in the earlier articles (part 1, part 2) in this series how to use the Kafka Connect API to build out a very simple, but powerful and scalable, streaming […]

At The New York Times we have a number of different systems that are used for producing content. We have several Content Management Systems, and we use third-party data and […]

Another successful Kafka Summit is in the books! Around 800 Apache Kafka® committers, users, and enthusiasts joined us at the Hilton Union Square in San Francisco for a day of […]

Update: KSQL is now available as a component of the Confluent Platform. I’m really excited to announce KSQL, a streaming SQL engine for Apache Kafka®. KSQL lowers the entry bar to […]

A huge number of people have been hard at work to make today happen. Our speakers have been writing presentations and preparing to teach their audiences about new Apache Kafka® […]

In the previous article in this blog series I showed how easy it is to stream data out of a database into Apache Kafka®, using the Kafka Connect API. I […]

When you build microservices using Apache Kafka®, the log can be used as more than just a communication protocol. It can be used to store events: messaging that remembers. This […]

This short series of articles is going to show you how to stream data from a database (MySQL) into Apache Kafka® and from Kafka into both a text file and Elasticsearch—all […]

Just a few months ago, hundreds of Apache Kafka® users and leaders from 400+ companies and 20 countries gathered in New York City to learn about the latest Kafka developments […]