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The Good and the Bad of Apache Kafka Streaming Platform

AltexSoft

Kafka can continue the list of brand names that became generic terms for the entire type of technology. Similar to Google in web browsing and Photoshop in image processing, it became a gold standard in data streaming, preferred by 70 percent of Fortune 500 companies. What is Kafka? What Kafka is used for.

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Consuming Messages Out of Apache Kafka in a Browser

Confluent

This is what it is like to visualize the message throughput of Apache Kafka ®. Traditionally, making sense of the data flowing in a distributed event streaming platform is done by charts and graphs of aggregated data. What if you wanted to see every message inside of Kafka? Pagination in Kafka for a UI.

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Consuming Messages Out of Apache Kafka in a Browser

Confluent

This is what it is like to visualize the message throughput of Apache Kafka ®. Traditionally, making sense of the data flowing in a distributed event streaming platform is done by charts and graphs of aggregated data. What if you wanted to see every message inside of Kafka? Pagination in Kafka for a UI.

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Learning All About Wi-Fi Data with Apache Kafka and Friends

Confluent

Recently, I’ve been looking at what’s possible with streams of Wi-Fi packet capture (pcap) data. I was prompted after initially setting up my Raspberry Pi to capture pcap data and […].

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Machine Learning with Python, Jupyter, KSQL and TensorFlow

Confluent

The blog posts How to Build and Deploy Scalable Machine Learning in Production with Apache Kafka and Using Apache Kafka to Drive Cutting-Edge Machine Learning describe the benefits of leveraging the Apache Kafka ® ecosystem as a central, scalable and mission-critical nervous system. For now, we’ll focus on Kafka.

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Accelerated integration of Eventador with Cloudera – SQL Stream Builder

Cloudera

It offers a slick user interface for writing SQL queries to run against real-time data streams in Apache Kafka or Apache Flink. This enables developers, data analysts and data scientists to write streaming applications using just SQL. This allows users to run continuous queries on data streams over specific time windows.

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Druid Deprecation and ClickHouse Adoption at Lyft

Lyft Engineering

At Lyft, we used rollup as a data preprocessing technique which aggregates and reduces the granularity of data prior to being stored in segments. Pre-aggregating data at ingestion time helped optimize our query performance and reduce our storage costs. ioConfig: Kafka server info, topic names, etc. (ex.

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