Cloud

How Global Payment Processors like Stripe and PayPal Use Data Streaming to Scale

This blog post explores how leading payment processors like Stripe, PayPal, Payoneer, and Worldline are leveraging data streaming with Apache…

3 weeks ago

The Rise of Diskless Kafka: Rethinking Brokers, Storage, and the Kafka Protocol

Apache Kafka has evolved from a data lake pipeline into the backbone of real-time transactional systems. The shift from broker-based…

1 month ago

Virta’s Electric Vehicle (EV) Charging Platform with Real-Time Data Streaming: Scalability for Large Charging Businesses

The rise of Electric Vehicles (EVs) demands a scalable, efficient charging network—but challenges like fluctuating demand, complex billing, and real-time…

5 months ago

The Importance of Focus: Why Software Vendors Should Specialize Instead of Doing Everything (Example: Data Streaming)

As real-time technologies reshape IT architectures, software vendors face a critical decision: specialize deeply in one domain or build a…

5 months ago

Data Streaming as the Technical Foundation for a B2B Marketplace

A B2B data marketplace empowers businesses to exchange, monetize, and leverage real-time data through self-service platforms featuring subscription management, usage-based…

6 months ago

Fully Managed (SaaS) vs. Partially Managed (PaaS) Cloud Services for Data Streaming with Kafka and Flink

The cloud revolution has reshaped how businesses deploy and manage data streaming with solutions like Apache Kafka and Flink. Distinctions…

8 months ago

IoT and Data Streaming with Kafka for a Tolling Traffic System with Dynamic Pricing

In the rapidly evolving landscape of intelligent traffic systems, innovative software provides real-time processing capabilities, dynamic pricing and new customer…

11 months ago

Fraud Prevention in Under 60 Seconds with Apache Kafka: How A Bank in Thailand is Leading the Charge

In financial services, the ability to prevent fraud in real-time is not just a competitive advantage - it is a…

11 months ago

Deployment Options for Apache Kafka: Self-Managed, Fully-Managed / Serverless and BYOC (Bring Your Own Cloud)

BYOC (Bring Your Own Cloud) is an emerging deployment model for organizations looking to maintain greater control over their cloud…

1 year ago

Multi-Cloud Replication in Real-Time with Apache Kafka and Cluster Linking

Multiple Apache Kafka clusters are the norm; not an exception anymore. Hybrid integration and multi-cloud replication for migration or disaster…

1 year ago