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Event Streams Are Nothing Without Action
The transition from a passive event stream to an active component like a workflow engine is very interesting. It raises a lot of questions about idempotency, scalability, and the capability […]
How to Tune RocksDB for Your Kafka Streams Application
Apache Kafka ships with Kafka Streams, a powerful yet lightweight client library for Java and Scala to implement highly scalable and elastic applications and microservices that process and analyze data […]
To Pull or to Push Your Data with Kafka Connect? That Is the Question.
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 […]
Lessons Learned from Running Apache Kafka at Scale at Pinterest
Apache Kafka® is at the heart of the data transportation layer at Pinterest. The amount of data that runs through Kafka has constantly grown over the years. This growth sometimes […]
Apache Kafka Meets Table Football
What happens when you let engineers go wild building an application to track the score of a table football game? This blog post shares SPOUD’s story of engineering a simple […]
Implementing mTLS and Securing Apache Kafka at Zendesk
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 […]
Apache Kafka Lag Monitoring at AppsFlyer
This article covers one crucial piece of every distributed system: visibility. At AppsFlyer, we call ourselves metrics obsessed and truly believe that you cannot know what you cannot see. We […]
Kafkathon 2020: Hacking Event Streams Everywhere
As part of this year’s Kafka Summit, the Confluent Community team hosted a community hackathon named Kafkathon 2020. The event provided an opportunity for participants to learn, build, and showcase […]
Building Streaming Data Architectures with Qlik Replicate and Apache Kafka
A fundamental challenge with today’s “data explosion” is finding the best answer to the question, “So where do I put my data?” while avoiding the longer-term problem of data warehouses, […]
Lessons Learned from Evolving a Risk Management Platform to Event Streaming
Every organization that exposes its services online is subject to the interest of malicious actors. The ongoing struggle with botnets, crawlers, script kiddies, and bounty hunters is challenging and requires […]
Best of Kafka Summit 2020 Roundup
If you know me, you know two things: first, that I am committed to remote work as an effective way to build a company; I’ve been a remote employee for […]
Kafka Summit 2020: Day 1 Recap
Here is what happened on day one of the event—spoiler alert: My first Summit was awesome. This year’s Kafka Summit is my first and I’ve been lucky to have a […]
How to Make the Most of Kafka Summit Virtually
Can you believe that Kafka Summit 2020 is just a week away? The members of the Apache Kafka® community worldwide (literally) are getting ready to discuss the future of event […]
Top 5 Reasons to Attend Kafka Summit Virtually
The first-ever virtual Kafka Summit 2020 kicks off next month in the comfort of your home office, couch, spare bedroom, living room, outbuilding, lanai, veranda, or in-home portico, featuring an […]