Kai Waehner

134 posts

builds mission-critical, scalable, streaming infrastructures with Apache Kafka

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IoT Live Demo – 100.000 Connected Cars with Kubernetes, Kafka, MQTT, TensorFlow

ByKai Waehner
8. November 2019

Live Demo – 100.000 Connected Cars – Real Time Processing and Analytics with Kubernetes, Kafka, MQTT and TensorFlow leveraging Confluent and HiveMQ.

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Service Mesh and Cloud-Native Microservices with Apache Kafka, Kubernetes and Envoy, Istio, Linkerd

ByKai Waehner
24. September 2019

This blog post takes a look at cutting edge technologies like Apache Kafka, Kubernetes, Envoy, Linkerd and Istio to implement a cloud-native service mesh for a scalable, robust and observable microservice architecture.

Apache Kafka and PLC4X Architecture for IIoT Automation Industry

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Apache Kafka, KSQL and Apache PLC4X for IIoT Data Integration and Processing

ByKai Waehner
2. September 2019

Data integration and processing in Industrial IoT (IIoT, aka Industry 4.0 or Automation Industry). Apache Kafka, its ecosystem (Kafka Connect, KSQL) and Apache PLC4X are a great open source choice to implement this integration end to end in a scalable, reliable and flexible way.

IoT and Supply Chain Optimization with Apache Kafka and Machine Learning

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Apache Kafka and Machine Learning for Real Time Supply Chain Optimization in IIoT

ByKai Waehner
23. August 2019

Apache Kafka and Machine Learning for Real Time Supply Chain Optimization: Integrate in real time with the legacy world and proprietary IIoT protocols (like Siemens S7, Modbus, Beckhoff ADS, OPC-UA, et al). You can process the data at scale and then ingest it into a modern database or analytic / machine learning framework.

Confluent Operator - A Kafka Operator for Kubernetes

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Kafka Operator for Kubernetes – Confluent Operator to establish a Cloud-Native Apache Kafka Platform

ByKai Waehner
29. July 2019

Kafka Operator for Kubernetes – Confluent Operator to establish a Cloud-Native Apache Kafka Platform on Kubernetes (OpenShift, CloudFoundry, Hybrid Cloud).

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IoT Integration with Kafka Connect, REST / HTTP, MQTT, OPC-UA – Lightboard Video

ByKai Waehner
26. July 2019

I just want to share my lightboard video recording. I talk about IoT integration and processing with Apache…

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Apache Kafka vs. Middleware (MQ, ETL, ESB) – Slides + Video

ByKai Waehner
7. March 2019

This post shares a slide deck and video recording of the differences between an event-driven streaming platform like Apache Kafka and middleware like Message Queues (MQ), Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) and Enterprise Service Bus (ESB).

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Apache Kafka + KSQL + TensorFlow for Data Scientists via Python + Jupyter Notebook

ByKai Waehner
18. January 2019

Streaming Processing with Apache Kafka and KSQL for Data Scientists via Python and Jupyter Notebooks to build analytic models with TensorFlow and Keras.

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Deep Learning Example: Apache Kafka + Python + Keras + TensorFlow + Deeplearning4j

ByKai Waehner
27. November 2018

“Python + Keras + TensorFlow + DeepLearning4j + Apache Kafka + Kafka Streams” => New example added to my “Machine Learning + Kafka Streams Examples” Github project.