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How to Better Manage Apache Kafka with Improved Topic Inspection via Last-Produced Timestamp
This blog post is the third in a four-part series that discusses a few new Confluent Control Center features that are introduced with Confluent Platform 6.2.0. It focuses on inspecting […]
How to Run Confluent on Windows in Minutes
I previously showed how to install and set up Apache Kafka® on Windows in minutes by using the Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL 2). From there, it’s only a […]
Introducing the Confluent Parallel Consumer
Consuming messages in parallel is what Apache Kafka® is all about, so you may well wonder, why would we want anything else? It turns out that, in practice, there are […]
Putting Several Event Types in the Same Topic – Revisited
In the article Should You Put Several Event Types in the Same Kafka Topic?, Martin Kleppmann discusses when to combine several event types in the same topic and introduces new […]
Stream Processing with IoT Data: Challenges, Best Practices, and Techniques
The rise of IoT devices means that we have to collect, process, and analyze orders of magnitude more data than ever before. As sensors and devices become ever more ubiquitous, […]
Streams and Tables in Apache Kafka: Topics, Partitions, and Storage Fundamentals
Part 1 of this series discussed the basic elements of an event streaming platform: events, streams, and tables. We also introduced the stream-table duality and learned why it is a […]
Spring for Apache Kafka Deep Dive – Part 4: Continuous Delivery of Event Streaming Pipelines
For event streaming application developers, it is important to continuously update the streaming pipeline based on the need for changes in the individual applications in the pipeline. It is also […]
Getting Your Feet Wet with Stream Processing – Part 1: Tutorial for Developing Streaming Applications
Stream processing is a data processing technology used to collect, store, and manage continuous streams of data as it’s produced or received. Stream processing (also known as event streaming or […]
Noise Mapping with KSQL, a Raspberry Pi and a Software-Defined Radio
Our new cat, Snowy, is waking early. She is startled by the noise of jets flying over our house. Can I determine which plane is upsetting her by utilizing Apache […]
Should You Put Several Event Types in the Same Kafka Topic?
If you adopt a streaming platform such as Apache Kafka, one of the most important questions to answer is: what topics are you going to use? In particular, if you […]