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The Rise of Managed Services for Apache Kafka

Confluent

As a distributed system for collecting, storing, and processing data at scale, Apache Kafka ® comes with its own deployment complexities. To simplify all of this, different providers have emerged to offer Apache Kafka as a managed service. Before Confluent Cloud was announced , a managed service for Apache Kafka did not exist.

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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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TimescaleDB: Fast And Scalable Timeseries with Ajay Kulkarni and Mike Freedman - Episode 18

Data Engineering Podcast

In your blog post that explains the design decisions for how Timescale is implemented you call out the fact that the inserted data is largely append only which simplifies the index management. The landscape of time series databases is extensive and oftentimes difficult to navigate.

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Scylla and Confluent Integration for IoT Deployments

Confluent

In light of this, we’ll share an emerging machine-to-machine (M2M) architecture pattern in which MQTT, Apache Kafka ® , and Scylla all work together to provide an end-to-end IoT solution. MQTT Proxy + Apache Kafka (no MQTT broker). On the other hand, Apache Kafka may deal with high-velocity data ingestion but not M2M.

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Big Data Technologies that Everyone Should Know in 2024

Knowledge Hut

In this blog post, we will discuss such technologies. NoSQL databases are designed for scalability and flexibility, making them well-suited for storing big data. The most popular NoSQL database systems include MongoDB, Cassandra, and HBase. It is especially true in the world of big data.

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Schemas, Contracts, and Compatibility

Confluent

The profile service will publish the changes in profiles, including address changes to an Apache Kafka ® topic, and the quote service will subscribe to the updates from the profile changes topic, calculate a new quote if needed and publish the new quota to a Kafka topic so other services can subscribe to the updated quote event.

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A Guide to the Confluent Verified Integrations Program

Confluent

It points to best practices for anyone writing Kafka Connect connectors. In a nutshell, the document states that sources and sinks are verified as Gold if they’re functionally equivalent to Kafka Connect connectors. Over the years, we’ve since seen wide adoption of Kafka Connect.