syslog is one of those ubiquitous standards on which much of modern computing runs. Built into operating systems such as Linux, it’s also commonplace in networking and IoT devices like […]
Confluent Platform is the central nervous system for a business, uniting your organization around a Kafka-based single source of truth. Apache Kafka® has been in production at thousands of companies […]
Today, 40,000 people in Las Vegas are thinking about the Cloud—not because the weather is dry in Nevada, but because AWS re:Invent is in full force. Today is a perfect […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
Confluent Platform and Apache Kafka® have come a long way from the time of their origin story. Like superheroes finding out they have powers, the latest updates always seem to […]
