Data Streaming

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 weeks 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 weeks 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…

4 weeks 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…

1 month ago

Process Intelligence Explained: Mining, Orchestration, and the Decision Gate

Process intelligence is not a single tool. It combines process mining, process orchestration, and a decision gate into one architecture…

2 months ago

When (Not) to Use Queues for Kafka?

Apache Kafka has long been the foundation for real-time data streaming. With the release of Queues for Kafka (QfK) in…

6 months ago

The Future of Data Streaming with Apache Flink for Agentic AI

Agentic AI is moving into production. Autonomous, tool-using, goal-driven systems that need real-time data and context. Apache Kafka and Flink…

12 months ago

Pinterest Fights Spam and Abuse with Kafka and Flink: A Deep Dive into the Guardian Rules Engine

Pinterest uses Apache Kafka and Flink to power Guardian, its real-time detection platform for spam, abuse, and fraud. This blog…

1 year ago

Building Agentic AI with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore and Data Streaming Using Apache Kafka and Flink

Agentic AI goes beyond chatbots. These are autonomous systems that observe, reason, and act—continuously and in real time. At AWS…

1 year ago

Agentic AI with the Agent2Agent Protocol (A2A) and MCP using Apache Kafka as Event Broker

Agentic AI is emerging as a powerful pattern for building autonomous, intelligent, and collaborative systems. To move beyond isolated models…

1 year ago