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Whether you were born in the cloud, are just dipping your toes in the water with cloud, or are somewhere in between, chances are your organization is on a cloud

Decentralized architectures continue to flourish as engineering teams look to unlock the potential of their people and systems. From Git, to microservices, to cryptocurrencies, these designs look to decentralization as

With many operating systems you have to periodically run a disk defragmenter program (“defrag”) to restore your system efficiency. By reorganizing the data stored on disk, sequential data becomes more

The Internet of Things (IoT)—connecting physical objects to software components—has created several innovations and opportunities for enterprise companies, and continues to grow in top industries, including healthcare, smart factories, energy,

Many leading lights of the Apache Kafka® community have appeared as guests on Streaming Audio at one time or another in the past three years. But some of its episodes

Messaging middleware and queues make up a significant portion of legacy enterprise data architectures. Those architectures are buckling under the strain of a range of new requirements involving data volumes

When companies need help with their vehicle fleets—including transport, storage, or renewing expired registrations—they don’t want to have to deal with multiple vehicle logistics providers. For these companies, ACERTUS provides

To effectively use ksqlDB, the streaming database for Apache Kafka®, you should of course be familiar with its features and syntax. However, a deeper understanding of what goes on underneath

At Confluent, we focus on the holy trinity of performance, price, and availability, with the goal of delivering a similar performance envelope for all workloads across all supported cloud providers.

Data is the lifeblood of so much of what we build as software professionals, so it’s unsurprising that operations involving its transfer occupy the vast majority of developer time across