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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. In this article, we’ll explain why businesses choose Kafka and what problems they face when using it. In this article, we’ll explain why businesses choose Kafka and what problems they face when using it. What is Kafka?

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How to Use Kafka for Event Streaming in a Microservices Architecture?

Workfall

Traditionally, web sockets were the go-to option when it came to real-time applications, but think of a situation whereby there’s server downtime. It means that there is a high risk of data loss but Apache Kafka solves this because it is distributed and can easily scale horizontally and other servers can take over the workload seamlessly.

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Cloudera acquires Eventador to accelerate Stream Processing in Public & Hybrid Clouds

Cloudera

We believe Eventador will accelerate innovation in our Cloudera DataFlow streaming platform and deliver more business value to our customers in their real-time analytics applications. We recently delivered all three of these streaming capabilities as cloud services through Cloudera Data Platform (CDP) Data Hub on AWS and Azure.

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Using SQL to democratize streaming data

Cloudera

But as data streaming technologies like Apache Kafka and Apache Flink have evolved, only until recently have SQL interfaces become deeply integrated. Structured Query Language (SQL) has enjoyed half a century of dominance as the de facto interface to data.

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Turning Streams Into Data Products

Cloudera

In 2015, Cloudera became one of the first vendors to provide enterprise support for Apache Kafka, which marked the genesis of the Cloudera Stream Processing (CSP) offering. Today, CSP is powered by Apache Flink and Kafka and provides a complete, enterprise-grade stream management and stateful processing solution. Who is affected?

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An Overview of Real Time Data Warehousing on Cloudera

Cloudera

Deep Dive into Time Series and Event Analytics Specialized RTDW , featuring Apache Druid, Apache Hive, Apache Kafka, and Cloudera DataViz. And finally, if you want to learn more about using CDP to do analytics, processing, and routing of data within the stream, please watch this video , which highlights Apache NiFi and Apache Kafka.

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A Cost-Effective Data Warehouse Solution in CDP Public Cloud – Part1

Cloudera

A typical approach that we have seen in customers’ environments is that ETL applications pull data with a frequency of minutes and land it into HDFS storage as an extra Hive table partition file. In this way, the analytic applications are able to turn the latest data into instant business insights. Cost-Effective.