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Morgan Stanley uses Apache Kafka® to publish market data to internal clients and to persist it for replay purposes. We started out using librdkafka’s C++ API, which maintains C++98 compatibility. […]
Today, every company is a data company. There are many different data pipeline, integration, and ingestion tools in the market, but before you can feed your data analytics needs, data […]
We are pleased to announce the release of Confluent Platform 6.1. With this release, we are further simplifying management tasks for Apache Kafka® operators and providing even higher availability for […]
Kafka Connect is part of Apache Kafka®, providing streaming integration of external systems in and out of Kafka. There are a large number of existing connectors, and you can also […]
This year’s pandemic has forced businesses all around the world to adopt a “remote-first” approach to their operations, with an emphasis on better enabling collaboration, remote work, and productivity. This […]
Confluent Platform 6.0 was released last year bringing with it many exciting new features to Confluent REST Proxy. Before we dive into what was added, let’s first revisit what REST […]
This blog post presents the use cases and architectures of REST APIs and Confluent REST Proxy, and explores a new management API and improved integrations into Confluent Server and Confluent […]
Asynchronous boundaries. Frameworks. Configuring frameworks. Apache Kafka®. All of these share one thing in common: complexity in testing. Now imagine them combined—it gets much harder. This is the final blog […]
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 […]
Many organisations rely on commercial or open source monitoring tools to measure the performance and stability of business-critical applications. AppDynamics, Datadog, and Prometheus are widely used commercial and open source […]
Imagine you’ve got a stream of data; it’s not “big data,” but it’s certainly a lot. Within the data, you’ve got some bits you’re interested in, and of those bits, […]
When building API-driven web applications, there is one key metric that engineering teams should minimize: the blocked factor. The blocked factor measures how much time developers spend in the following […]
Traditional relational database systems are ubiquitous in software systems. They are surrounded by a strong ecosystem of tools, such as object-relational mappers and schema migration helpers. Relational databases also provide […]
One of the football (as per European terminology) highlights of the summer is the FIFA Women’s World Cup. France, Brazil, and the USA are the favourites, and this year Italy […]