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The phrase time value of data has been used to demonstrate that the value of captured data diminishes by time. This means that the sooner the data is captured, analyzed […]

It might seem a little strange, being the holiday season and still technically 2018, for me to be talking 2019 Kafka Summit events. But as you may already know, the […]

The principle of least privilege dictates that each user and application will have the minimal privileges required to do their job. When applied to Apache Kafka® and its Streams API, […]

Imagine: Disaster strikes—catastrophic hardware failure, software failure, power outage, denial of service attack or some other event causes one datacenter with an Apache Kafka® cluster to completely fail. Yet Kafka […]

Only a few years ago, when someone said they had a “cloud-first strategy,” you knew exactly who their new preferred vendor was. These days, however, the story is a lot […]

Machine learning and the Apache Kafka® ecosystem are a great combination for training and deploying analytic models at scale. I had previously discussed potential use cases and architectures for machine […]

Kafka Connect is part of Apache Kafka®, providing streaming integration between data stores and Kafka. For data engineers, it just requires JSON configuration files to use. There are connectors for […]

In Kafka, a topic can have multiple partitions to which records are distributed. Partitions are the unit of parallelism. In general, more partitions leads to higher throughput. However, there are […]

Choosing the right messaging system during your architectural planning is always a challenge, yet one of the most important considerations to nail. As a developer, I write applications daily that […]

Fraud detection is a topic applicable to many industries, including banking and financial sectors, insurance, government agencies and law enforcement and more. Fraud attempts have seen a drastic increase in […]

Were you there last week? For as big as that event felt, it’s hard to believe it’s only the third annual Kafka Summit San Francisco. But the view was beautiful […]

When Confluent launched the Helm Charts and early access program for Confluent Operator, we published a blog post explaining how to easily run Apache Kafka® on Kubernetes. Since then, we’ve […]

Our new cat, Snowy, is waking early. She is startled by the noise of jets flying over our house. Can I determine which plane is upsetting her by utilizing Apache […]

In the future, data will be as automated and self-service as infrastructure is today. You’ll open a console that lists the data available in your company; define the pieces you […]