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When the big data movement started it was mostly focused on batch processing. Distributed data storage and querying tools like MapReduce, Hive, and Pig were all designed to process data in batches ...

Streaming is hot. The demand for real-time data processing is rising, and streaming vendors are proliferating and competing. Apache Kafka is a key component in many data pipeline architectures, mostly ...

Originally developed at LinkedIn, Apache Kafka is one of the most mature platforms for event streaming. Kafka is used for high-performance data pipelines, streaming analytics, data integration, and ...

Apache Kafka, the open-source distributed messaging system, has steadily carved a foothold as the de facto real-time standard for brokering messages in scale-out environments. And if you think you ...

The Apache Kafka distributed streaming platform features an architecture that – ironically, given the name – provides application messaging that is markedly clearer and less Kafkaesque when compared ...

Confluent, founded by the creators of Apache™ Kafka™, announced the release of open source Confluent Platform 2.0, based on an updated Apache Kafka 0.9 core. Representing a big leap forward in the ...