As more and more organizations have come to rely on streaming data to provide real-time insights, a number of applications have sprung up to handle the myriad technical challenges that streaming data ...

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

When the big data movement started it was mostly focused on batch processing. Distributed data storage and querying tools like MapReduce, Hive, and Pig were all designed to process data in batches ...

Apache Kafka is a fascinating product that solves a problem that almost nobody has. If the Internet is a series of tubes (RIP Ted Stevens), Apache Kafka is the pipe that connects high-volume ...

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today, Amazon Web Services Inc., an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced the general availability of Amazon MSK, a fully managed service for Apache Kafka that makes ...

Apache Kafka startup Confluent Inc. today debuted a new infinite data retention feature within its Confluent Cloud platform that enables customers to store as much related information as they want.

PALO ALTO, Calif., Feb. 19 — Cloudera, the global provider of the fastest, easiest, and most secure data management and analytics platform built on Apache Hadoop and the latest open source ...

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 ...