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Apache Mesos, Apache Kafka and Kafka Streams for Highly Scalable Microservices
Apache Kafka and Apache Mesos are very well-known and successful Apache projects. A lot has happened in these projects since Confluent’s last blog post on the topic in July 2015. […]
Building a Real-Time Streaming ETL Pipeline in 20 Minutes
There has been a lot of talk recently that traditional ETL is dead. In the traditional ETL paradigm, data warehouses were king, ETL jobs were batch-driven, everything talked to everything […]
Introduction to Apache Kafka® for Python Programmers
In this blog post, we’re going to get back to basics and walk through how to get started using Apache Kafka with your Python applications. We will assume some basic […]
Getting Started with the Kafka Streams API using Confluent Docker Images
Introduction What’s great about the Kafka Streams API is not just how fast your application can process data with it, but also how fast you can get up and running […]
Securing the Confluent Schema Registry for Apache Kafka®
Note: The blog post Ensure Data Quality and Data Evolvability with a Secured Schema Registry contains more recent information. If you use Apache Kafka to integrate and decouple different data […]
Apache Kafka: Getting Started
Seems that many engineers have “Learn Kafka” on their new year resolution list. This isn’t very surprising. Apache Kafka is a popular technology with many use-cases. Armed with basic Kafka […]
Data Reprocessing with the Streams API in Kafka: Resetting a Streams Application
This blog post is the third in a series about the Streams API of Apache Kafka, the new stream processing library of the Apache Kafka project, which was introduced in Kafka v0.10.
Building a Streaming Analytics Stack with Apache Kafka and Druid
This is a guest blog from Fangjin Yang. Fangjin is the co-founder and CEO of Imply, a San Francisco based technology company, and one of the main committers of the Druid […]
Apache Kafka Security 101
TLS, Kerberos, SASL, and Authorizer in Apache Kafka 0.9 – Enabling New Encryption, Authorization, and Authentication Features Apache Kafka is frequently used to store critical data making it one of […]
Introducing the Kafka Consumer: Getting Started with the New Apache Kafka 0.9 Consumer Client
When Apache Kafka® was originally created, it shipped with a Scala producer and consumer client. Over time we came to realize many of the limitations of these APIs. For example, […]
Getting started with Kafka in node.js with the Confluent REST Proxy
Previously, I posted about the Kafka REST Proxy from Confluent, which provides easy access to a Kafka cluster from any language. That post focused on the motivation, low-level examples, and […]
Making Apache Kafka Elastic With Apache Mesos
This post has been written in collaboration with Derrick Harris from Mesosphere and Joe Stein, a Kafka committer. For an updated version of this article, please see Apache Mesos, Apache Kafka and […]