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 ...

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 ...

Life happens as a continuous flow of events (a stream). Ted Dunning and Ellen Friedman describe new designs for streaming data architecture that help you get real-time insights and greatly improve ...

In the previous article, we gained an understanding of the main Kafka components and how Kafka consumers work. Now, we’ll see how these contribute to the ability of Kafka to provide extreme ...

Data contracts are foundational to properly designed and well behaved data pipelines. Kafka and Flink provide the key ...

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Ensuring that distributed systems like Apache Kafka are resilient is crucial to withstanding disruptions, adapting to changing conditions and maintaining essential functions. Those who implement ...

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