messaging

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

Error Handling via Dead Letter Queue in Apache Kafka

Recognizing and handling errors is essential for any reliable data streaming pipeline. This blog post explores best practices for implementing…

4 years ago

Comparison: JMS Message Queue vs. Apache Kafka

Comparing JMS-based message queue (MQ) infrastructures and Apache Kafka-based data streaming is a widespread topic. Unfortunately, the battle is an…

4 years ago

Pulsar vs Kafka – Comparison and Myths Explored

Pulsar vs Kafka - which one is better? This blog post explores pros and cons, popular myths, and non-technical criteria…

6 years ago

Apache Kafka vs. Middleware (MQ, ETL, ESB) – Slides + Video

This post shares a slide deck and video recording of the differences between an event-driven streaming platform like Apache Kafka…

8 years ago

Apache Kafka vs. ESB / ETL / MQ

Read why enterprises leverage the open source ecosystem of Apache Kafka for successful integration of different legacy and modern applications…

8 years ago

Apache Kafka + Kafka Streams + Mesos / DCOS = Scalable Microservices

Apache Kafka + Kafka Streams + Apache Mesos = Highly Scalable Microservices. Mission-critical deployments via DC/OS and Confluent on premise…

9 years ago

Why I Move (Back) to Open Source for Messaging, Integration and Stream Processing

After three great years at TIBCO Software, I move back to open source and join Confluent, the company behind the…

9 years ago

Why TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks 6 Is a Leading Integration and Service Delivery Platform

TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks 6 is a modern integration and service delivery platform ready for modern concepts such Mobile, Cloud, Internet…

10 years ago

Microservices = Death of the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)? – Slide Deck and Video Recording

In 2015, the middleware world focuses on two buzzwords: Docker and Microservices. Software vendors still sell products such as an…

11 years ago