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Just like algae blooms in the ocean and pollen in the spring, there’s been an explosion in the past year or two of new software, related tools and lingo from the IT and mainstream/consumer side. Some ...

Getting the most out of any Apache Kafka event streaming deployment requires a thorough understanding of Kafka consumer groups. Here’s what you need to know. To really understand Apache Kafka—and get ...

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Kafka wasn’t the first open source project I was involved in at LinkedIn. We’d also built a key-value store, a workflow system, and a number of other things. The biggest difference with Kafka was that ...

Streaming is hot. The demand for real-time data processing is rising, and streaming vendors are proliferating and competing. Apache Kafka is a key component in many data pipeline architectures, mostly ...

Cluster Linking will allow data to be replicated between clusters implicitly and will accommodate implementations where specific data can be assured of staying within specific geographic boundaries.

The open-source technology behind hot startup Confluent, which allows companies to stream vast amounts of data for near-instant use, has earned it supporters at a who’s who of tech companies (think ...

These days, massively scalable pub/sub messaging is virtually synonymous with Apache Kafka. Apache Kafka continues to be the rock-solid, open-source, go-to choice for distributed streaming ...