kafka streams

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

The Past, Present and Future of Stream Processing

Stream processing has existed for decades. The adoption grows with open source frameworks like Apache Kafka and Flink in combination…

3 years ago

When to choose Redpanda instead of Apache Kafka?

Data streaming emerged as a new software category. It complements traditional middleware, data warehouse, and data lakes. Apache Kafka became…

4 years ago

Disaster Recovery with Kafka across the Edge and Hybrid Cloud (QCon Talk)

I spoke at QCon London in April 2022 about building disaster recovery and resilient real-time enterprise architectures with Apache Kafka.…

5 years ago

Streaming ETL with Apache Kafka in the Healthcare Industry

IT modernization and innovative new technologies change the healthcare industry significantly. This blog series explores how data streaming with Apache…

5 years ago

Kafka for Cybersecurity (Part 2 of 6) – Cyber Situational Awareness

This blog series explores use cases and architectures for Apache Kafka in the cybersecurity space, including situational awareness, threat intelligence,…

5 years ago

Apache Kafka in the Insurance Industry

The rise of data in motion in the insurance industry is visible across all lines of business including life, healthcare,…

5 years ago

Apache Kafka in the Airline, Aviation and Travel Industry

Aviation and travel are notoriously vulnerable to social, economic, and political events, as well as the ever-changing expectations of consumers.…

6 years ago

A Hybrid Streaming Architecture for Smart Retail Stores with Apache Kafka

Event Streaming with Apache Kafka disrupts the retail industry. This blog post explores a concrete use case as part of…

6 years ago

Apache Kafka in Gaming (Games Industry, Bookmaker, Betting, Gambling, Video Streaming)

This blog post explores how event streaming with Apache Kafka provides a scalable, reliable, and efficient infrastructure to make gamers…

6 years ago