Use Cases

So you’ve convinced your friends and stakeholders about the benefits of event-driven systems. You have successfully piloted a few services backed by Apache Kafka®, and it is now supporting business-critical […]

While the current hype around the Internet of Things (IoT) focuses on smart “things”—smart homes, smart cars, smart watches—the first known IoT device was a simple Coca-Cola vending machine at […]

Cloud is one of the key drivers for innovation. Innovative companies experiment with data to come up with something useful. It usually starts with the opening of a firehose that […]

The requirements for fast and reliable data pipelines are growing quickly at Deliveroo as the business continues to grow and innovate. We have delivered an event streaming platform which gives […]

Fraud detection is a topic applicable to many industries, including banking and financial sectors, insurance, government agencies and law enforcement and more. Fraud attempts have seen a drastic increase in […]

Our new cat, Snowy, is waking early. She is startled by the noise of jets flying over our house. Can I determine which plane is upsetting her by utilizing Apache […]

Zenreach provides a platform that leverages Wi-Fi and enables merchants to better understand and engage with their customers. Most of our product features depend on one basic building block: real-time […]

At Stitch Fix, we blend the art of expert personal styling with the science of algorithms to deliver highly personalized services that cater to the tastes, lifestyles and budgets of […]

We are pleased to invite Tom Underhill to join us as a guest blogger. Tom is Head of R&D at Rittman Mead, a data and analytics company who specialise in […]

This article is by Hunter Kelly, Technical Architect at Zalando. Hunter enjoys using technology, and in particular machine learning, to solve difficult problems. He’s a graduate of the University of […]

Kafka Streams makes it easy to write scalable, fault-tolerant, and real-time production apps and microservices. This post builds upon a previous post that covered scalable machine learning with Apache Kafka, […]

At Pinterest, we use Kafka Streams API to provide inflight spend data to thousands of ads servers in mere seconds. Our ads engineering team works hard to ensure we’re providing […]

At The New York Times we have a number of different systems that are used for producing content. We have several Content Management Systems, and we use third-party data and […]

This post is by Anil Kumar, Global eCommerce Engineer at Walmart Labs. Anil specializes in enabling stream processing, cloud computing, ad technology, search services, information retrieval, transport and application layer protocols, […]