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Kai Waehner Technology Evangelist – Big Data Analytics – Middleware – Apache Kafka
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            Kai Waehner
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            bridging the gap between technical innovation and business value for real-time data streaming, processing and analytics

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            Kafka as Event Streaming Platform for a Digital Twin and Digital Thread
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            IoT Architectures for Digital Twin with Apache Kafka

            • Apache Kafka
            • Architecture
            • IIoT
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            • Internet of Things
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            • ByKai Waehner
            • 25. March 2020
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            A digital twin is a virtual representation of something else. This can be a physical thing, process or…
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            Can Apache Kafka Replace a Database like Oracle Hadoop NoSQL MongoDB Elastic MySQL et al
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            Can Apache Kafka Replace a Database?

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            • Kafka Connect
            • ByKai Waehner
            • 12. March 2020
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            Can and should Apache Kafka replace a database? How long can and should I store data in Kafka?…
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            Event Streaming and Apache Kafka in Telco Industry
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            Event Streaming and Apache Kafka in Telco Industry

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            • Kafka Connect
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            • Telecommunications Industry
            • ByKai Waehner
            • 6. March 2020
            Event Streaming is a hot topic in Telco Industry. In the last few months, I have seen various…
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            The Rise of Event Streaming with Apache Kafka
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            The Rise Of Event Streaming – Why Apache Kafka Changes Everything

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            • Big Data
            • Kafka Connect
            • Kafka Streams
            • ksqlDB
            • Microservices
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            • ByKai Waehner
            • 6. February 2020
            I had the pleasure to deliver the keynote at OOP 2020 in Munich, Germany. This is a well-known…
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            Edge Hybrid and Global Apache Kafka Architectures
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            Architecture patterns for distributed, hybrid, edge and global Apache Kafka deployments

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            • ByKai Waehner
            • 29. January 2020
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            Multi-cluster and cross-data center deployments of Apache Kafka have become the norm rather than an exception. Learn about…
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