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Apache Kafka
Data Products, Data Contracts, and Change Data Capture
Change data capture is a popular method to connect database tables to data streams, but it comes with drawbacks. The next evolution of the CDC pattern, first-class data products, provide resilient pipelines that support both real-time and batch processing while isolating upstream systems...
Introducing Confluent Cloud Freight Clusters
Learn how the latest innovations in Kora enable us to introduce new Confluent Cloud Freight clusters, which can save you up to 90% at GBps+ scale. Confluent Cloud Freight clusters are now available in Early Access.
Contributing to Apache Kafka®: How to Write a KIP
Learn how to contribute to open source Apache Kafka by writing Kafka Improvement Proposals (KIPs) that solve problems and add features! Read on for real examples.
Using Apache Kafka to Drive Cutting-Edge Machine Learning
Machine learning and the Apache Kafka® ecosystem are a great combination for training and deploying analytic models at scale. I had previously discussed potential use cases and architectures for machine […]
Kafka Connect Deep Dive – Converters and Serialization Explained
Kafka Connect is part of Apache Kafka®, providing streaming integration between data stores and Kafka. For data engineers, it just requires JSON configuration files to use. There are connectors for […]
Apache Kafka Supports 200K Partitions Per Cluster
In Kafka, a topic can have multiple partitions to which records are distributed. Partitions are the unit of parallelism. In general, more partitions leads to higher throughput. However, there are […]
How to Work with Apache Kafka in Your Spring Boot Application
Choosing the right messaging system during your architectural planning is always a challenge, yet one of the most important considerations to nail. As a developer, I write applications daily that […]
Apache Kafka vs. Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) – Friends, Enemies or Frenemies?
Typically, an enterprise service bus (ESB) or other integration solutions like extract-transform-load (ETL) tools have been used to try to decouple systems. However, the sheer number of connectors, as well […]
We ❤️ syslogs: Real-time syslog processing with Apache Kafka and KSQL – Part 3: Enriching events with external data
Using KSQL, the SQL streaming engine for Apache Kafka®, it’s straightforward to build streaming data pipelines that filter, aggregate, and enrich inbound data. The data could be from numerous sources, […]
Analytics on Bare Metal: Xenon and Kafka Connect
The following post is a guest blog from Tushar Sudhakar Jee, Software Engineer, Levyx responsible for Kafka infrastructure. You may find this post also on Levyx’s blog. Abstract As part […]
We ❤ syslogs: Real-time syslog Processing with Apache Kafka and KSQL – Part 2: Event-Driven Alerting with Slack
In the previous article, we saw how syslog data can be easily streamed into Apache Kafka® and filtered in real time with KSQL. In this article, we’re going to see how […]
No More Silos: How to Integrate Your Databases with Apache Kafka and CDC
One of the most frequent questions and topics that I see come up on community resources such as StackOverflow, the Confluent Platform mailing list, and the Confluent Community Slack group, […]
Event Sourcing Using Apache Kafka
Adam Warski is one of the co-founders of SoftwareMill, where he codes mainly using Scala and other interesting technologies. He is involved in open-source projects, such as sttp, MacWire, Quicklens, […]
Should You Put Several Event Types in the Same Kafka Topic?
If you adopt a streaming platform such as Apache Kafka, one of the most important questions to answer is: what topics are you going to use? In particular, if you […]
Handling GDPR with Apache Kafka: How does a log forget?
If you follow the press around Apache Kafka you’ll probably know it’s pretty good at tracking and retaining messages, but sometimes removing messages is important too. GDPR is a good […]
Toward a Functional Programming Analogy for Microservices
Microservices are all the rage these days. Passionate, thoughtful advocates and detractors present compelling arguments for and against the architectural style. Usually, these arguments boil down to whether organizations should adopt, refrain from, or abandon microservices...
Apache Kafka Goes 1.0
It has been seven years since we first set out to create the distributed streaming platform we know now as Apache Kafka®. Born initially as a highly scalable messaging system, […]