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Our journey with microservices, so far… Back in the days before microservices, we used to build applications that were often hosted in application servers such as WebLogic or WebSphere (apologies

Welcome Pythonistas to the streaming data world centered around Apache Kafka®! If you’re using Python and ready to get hands-on with Kafka, then you’re in the right place. This blog

tl;dr When a client wants to send or receive a message from Apache Kafka®, there are two types of connection that must succeed: The initial connection to a broker (the

Modern Python has very good support for cooperative multitasking. Coroutines were first added to the language in version 2.5 with PEP 342 and their use is becoming mainstream following the

Building a scalable, reliable and performant machine learning (ML) infrastructure is not easy. It takes much more effort than just building an analytic model with Python and your favorite machine

In the previous article, we saw how syslog data can be easily streamed into Apache Kafka® and filtered in real time with KSQL. In this article, we’re going to see how

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

At the end of 2016 we conducted a survey of the Apache Kafka® community regarding their use of Kafka clients (the producers and consumers used with Kafka) and their priorities