Driven by the wave of digitalization, torrents of information surge forth, and much data may seem worthless on the surface. However, upon deeper analysis, it can provide unique insights for ...

Organizations building real-time stream processing systems on Apache Kafka will be able to trust the platform to deliver each messages exactly once when they adopt new Kafka technology planned to be ...

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Shiny new objects are easy to find in the big data space. So when the industry’s attention shifted towards processing streams of data in real time–as opposed to batch-style processing that was popular ...

The open-source technology behind hot startup Confluent, which allows companies to stream vast amounts of data for near-instant use, has earned it supporters at a who’s who of tech companies (think ...

In this section, we will examine the architectural components and related terminology in Kafka. Basically, Kafka consists of the following components: Kafka Cluster—a collection of one or more servers ...

These days, massively scalable pub/sub messaging is virtually synonymous with Apache Kafka. Apache Kafka continues to be the rock-solid, open-source, go-to choice for distributed streaming ...