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This blog post talks about the recent improvements on exactly-once semantics (EOS) to make it simpler to use and more resilient. EOS was first released in Apache Kafka® 0.11 and

Apache Kafka® is a distributed commit log, commonly used as a multi-tenant data hub to connect diverse source systems and sink systems. Source systems can be systems or records, operational

What is stopping you from using Kafka Streams as your data layer for building applications? After all, it comes with fast, embedded RocksDB storage, takes care of redundancy for you,

Everyone wants their infrastructure to be highly available, and ksqlDB is no different. But crucial properties like high availability don’t come without a thoughtful, rigorous design. We thought hard about

Consumer shopping patterns have changed drastically in the last few years. Shopping in a physical store is no longer the only way. Retail shopping experiences have evolved to include multiple

On behalf of the Apache Kafka® community, it is my pleasure to announce the release of Apache Kafka 2.5.0. The community has created another exciting release. We are making progress

Many companies have recently started to take cybersecurity and data protection even more seriously, particularly driven by the recent General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) legislation. They are increasing their investment

Event stream processing solves many business challenges, from big data ingestion and data integration, to real-time data processing and IoT. It gives you the ability to analyze big data streams

The world is changing fast, and keeping up can be hard. Companies must evolve their IT to stay modern, providing services that are more and more sophisticated to their customers.

Now that we’ve learned about the processing layer of Apache Kafka® by looking at streams and tables, as well as the architecture of distributed processing with the Kafka Streams API