Use Cases

What happens when you let engineers go wild building an application to track the score of a table football game? This blog post shares SPOUD’s story of engineering a simple […]

This a summary of Podium’s technological journey and an example of how our engineering team is tooling ourselves to scale well into the years to come. Here at Podium, we’re […]

We launched a transformation initiative three years ago that transitioned SEI Investments from a monolithic database-oriented architecture to a containerized services platform with an event-driven architecture based on Confluent Platform. […]

At Zendesk, Apache Kafka® is one of our foundational services for distributing events among different internal systems. We have pods, which can be thought of as isolated cloud environments where […]

This article covers one crucial piece of every distributed system: visibility. At AppsFlyer, we call ourselves metrics obsessed and truly believe that you cannot know what you cannot see. We […]

As a clothing retailer with more than 1.5 million customers worldwide, Boden is always looking to capitalise on business moments to drive sales. For example, when the Duchess of Cambridge […]

This blog post presents the use cases and architectures of REST APIs and Confluent REST Proxy, and explores a new management API and improved integrations into Confluent Server and Confluent […]

Every organization that exposes its services online is subject to the interest of malicious actors. The ongoing struggle with botnets, crawlers, script kiddies, and bounty hunters is challenging and requires […]

As one of the world’s biggest internet-based platform companies, Tencent uses technology to enrich the lives of users and assist the digital upgrade of enterprises. An example product is the […]

Using a declarative SQL-like interface, ksqlDB makes it easy to integrate event streaming applications into any tech stack. This article illustrates how ksqlDB was added to PushOwl’s Python tech stack, […]

Apache Kafka® is a distributed commit log, commonly used as a multi-tenant data hub to connect diverse source systems and sink systems. Source systems can be systems or records, operational […]

With billions of Internet of Things (IoT) devices, achieving real-time interoperability has become a major challenge. Together, Confluent, Waterstream, and MQTT are accelerating Industry 4.0 with new Industrial IoT (IIoT) […]

Most organisations maintain fleets, a collection of vehicles put to use for day-to-day operations. Telcos use a variety of vehicles including cars, vans, and trucks for service, delivery, and maintenance. […]

Imagine you’ve got a stream of data; it’s not “big data,” but it’s certainly a lot. Within the data, you’ve got some bits you’re interested in, and of those bits, […]