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Confluent, founded by the creators of Apache™ Kafka™, announced the release of open source Confluent Platform 2.0, based on an updated Apache Kafka 0.9 core. Representing a big leap forward in the ...

Event-driven architectures are wonderful. But Kafka was never intended to be a database, and using it as a database won’t solve your problem. It’s a tale as old as time. An enterprise is struggling ...

The Apache Kafka distributed streaming platform features an architecture that – ironically, given the name – provides application messaging that is markedly clearer and less Kafkaesque when compared ...

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 ...

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 ...