Event Streaming

I’ve always found event sourcing to be fascinating. We spend so much of our lives as developers saving data in database tables—doing this in a completely different way seems almost […]

Apache Kafka® applications run in a distributed manner across multiple containers or machines. And in the world of distributed systems, what can go wrong often goes wrong. This blog post […]

Why should you monitor your Apache Kafka® client applications? Apart from the usual reasons for monitoring any application, such as ensuring uptime SLAs, there are a few specific reasons for […]

This blog post walks through an end-to-end demo that uses the Confluent Operator to deploy Confluent Platform to Kubernetes. We will deploy a connector that watches for commits to a […]

One of the most common relational database systems that connects to Apache Kafka® is Oracle, which often holds highly critical enterprise transaction workloads. While Oracle Database (DB) excels at many […]

Since I first started using Apache Kafka® eight years ago, I went from being a student who had just heard about event streaming to contributing to the transformational, company-wide event […]

ksqlDB, the event streaming database, is becoming one of the most popular ways to work with Apache Kafka®. Every day, we answer many questions about the project, but here’s a […]

As businesses reassess their strategies mid pandemic, some are struggling to adjust to the new normal. The digital divide is growing wider. Leading companies have recognized the massive opportunity in […]

Whether your organization needs simple pub/sub messaging, real-time data analytics, or a complete digital transformation, event streaming technology brings a myriad of benefits for the new era of big data. […]

If you’re like me, you may be accustomed to reading articles about event streaming that are framed by large organizations and mountains of data. We’ve read about how the event […]

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 […]

Netflix spent an estimated $15 billion to produce world-class original content in 2019. When stakes are so high, it is paramount to enable our business with critical insights that help […]

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 […]

Part 2 of this series discussed in detail the storage layer of Apache Kafka: topics, partitions, and brokers, along with storage formats and event partitioning. Now that we have this […]