apache kafka

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

Data Streaming Landscape Q3 2026: Who Controls Your Streams

The Data Streaming Landscape Q3 2026 maps every major streaming vendor and open-source project by workload and operating model, explains…

1 month ago

When NOT to Use Stream Processing: Messaging and APIs Are Often Enough

Confluent rearchitected Control Center away from its Kafka Streams metrics pipeline. Kestra 2.0 rebuilt its queuing layer around plain queueing.…

2 months ago

When to Use AMQP, JMS, Kafka, or MQTT: Trade-offs, Not a Winner

AMQP, JMS, Kafka, and MQTT get compared as rivals, but a message broker, a log, and a device protocol sit…

3 months ago

Edge to Cloud and Back: Four Data Movement Problems, and Why One Technology Never Solves All of Them

Edge to cloud is not one integration problem. It is four: telemetry going up, control going down, sites syncing sideways,…

3 months ago

Data Integration Landscape 2026: Event Streaming, API, and Batch in the Era of Agentic AI

The Data Integration Landscape 2026 maps every major vendor across three communication paradigms: request-response, event-driven, and batch. Event streaming has…

3 months ago

Why I Joined Kestra: Enterprise Workflow Orchestration for the Agentic AI Era

Enterprises run separate tools for IT scheduling, data pipelines, business processes, and infrastructure. None talk to each other. Modernization and…

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

Data Streaming Meets the SAP Ecosystem and Databricks – Insights from SAP Sapphire Madrid

SAP Sapphire 2025 in Madrid brought together global SAP users, partners, and technology leaders to showcase the future of enterprise…

1 year ago