Jev by TypeSafe AI returns typed decisions with calibrated probabilities in a few hundred milliseconds. This post shows how a…
The Q3 2026 edition of the data streaming trends names ten trends through 2027, grouped by market, architecture, and practice:…
Confluent rearchitected Control Center away from its Kafka Streams metrics pipeline. Kestra 2.0 rebuilt its queuing layer around plain queueing.…
AMQP, JMS, Kafka, and MQTT get compared as rivals, but a message broker, a log, and a device protocol sit…
Most vendors sell milliseconds, but most enterprise use cases do not need them. A critical look at Kafka, Flink, Spark,…
Nine years at Confluent: from a Silicon Valley startup with 100 people to an $11 billion IBM acquisition. A personal…
Databricks and Snowflake now speak the Kafka protocol. But using the Kafka API to feed a lakehouse is very different…
MCP, REST/HTTP APIs, and Apache Kafka are not alternatives. They solve different problems at different layers of the architecture. This…
The Shift Left Architecture moves data integration logic into an event-driven architecture where governed data products are built once and…
Dashboards are a popular way to make streaming data visible and useful, but they are not always the right solution.…