Data Streaming

Industrial IoT Landscape Q4 2026: The Plant Floor Is Becoming Software

The Industrial IoT Landscape Q4 2026 maps vendors and open source from edge to cloud in four categories, explains the…

5 hours ago

Why Jev by TypeSafe AI Fits Apache Kafka and Flink Better Than LLMs

Jev by TypeSafe AI returns typed decisions with calibrated probabilities in a few hundred milliseconds. This post shows how a…

2 weeks ago

Data Streaming Trends Q3 2026: What Changes Through 2027

The Q3 2026 edition of the data streaming trends names ten trends through 2027, grouped by market, architecture, and practice:…

3 weeks ago

Kafka vs Flink vs Spark: Do You Really Need Real-Time?

Most vendors sell milliseconds, but most enterprise use cases do not need them. A critical look at Kafka, Flink, Spark,…

3 months ago

My Confluent Chapter: From Apache Kafka Startup to $11 Billion IBM Acquisition

Nine years at Confluent: from a Silicon Valley startup with 100 people to an $11 billion IBM acquisition. A personal…

4 months ago

Why Databricks and Snowflake Speak the Kafka Protocol: Ingestion vs. Architecture

Databricks and Snowflake now speak the Kafka protocol. But using the Kafka API to feed a lakehouse is very different…

4 months ago

The Trinity of Modern Data Architecture: Process Intelligence, Event-Driven Integration, and Trusted Agentic AI

Agentic AI without governed processes is fast but ungoverned. Event-driven integration without process intelligence moves data but not decisions. Process…

6 months ago

Dashboards and Queries for Apache Kafka: Operational, Explorative, and the Role of the Context Engine

Dashboards are a popular way to make streaming data visible and useful, but they are not always the right solution.…

7 months ago

Data Streaming at MWC 2026: How Apache Kafka, Flink and Agentic AI Power Telecom Trends

Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2026 highlights the shift from batch systems to real time data streaming in telecom. AI and…

7 months ago

The Ultimate Data Streaming Guide is Back – Second Edition of the Book and Industry Editions Now Available

The second edition of The Ultimate Data Streaming Guide is now available as a free eBook. It includes over 70…

8 months ago