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At Zendesk, Apache Kafka® is one of our foundational services for distributing events among different internal systems. We have pods, which can be thought of as isolated cloud environments where

It’s almost KubeCon! Let’s talk about the state of cloud-native Apache Kafka® and other distributed systems on Kubernetes. Over the last decade, our industry has seen the rise of container

Apache Kafka® scales well. A Kafka cluster can grow to tens or hundreds of brokers and easily sustain tens of GB per second of read and write traffic. But scaling

With the release of Confluent Platform 6.0 comes a preview of Confluent Cluster Linking available to self-managed customers and in Confluent Cloud for our early access partners. Cluster Linking is

Near-real-time insights have become a de facto requirement for Azure use cases involving scalable log analytics, time series analytics, and IoT/telemetry analytics. Azure Data Explorer (also called Kusto) is the

Confluent Operator allows you to deploy and manage Confluent Platform as a cloud-native, stateful container application on Kubernetes and OpenShift. The automation provided by Kubernetes, Operator, and Helm greatly simplifies

If you are taking your first steps with Apache Kafka®, looking at a test environment for your client application, or building a Kafka demo, there are two “easy button” paths

This is the fifth month of Project Metamorphosis: an initiative that addresses the manual toil of running Apache Kafka® by bringing the best characteristics of modern cloud-native data systems to

As one of the world’s biggest internet-based platform companies, Tencent uses technology to enrich the lives of users and assist the digital upgrade of enterprises. An example product is the

Apache Kafka® is the de facto standard for event streaming today. The semantics of the partitioned consumer model that Kafka pioneered have enabled scale at a level and at a