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Troubleshooting Kafka In Production

Data Engineering Podcast

Summary Kafka has become a ubiquitous technology, offering a simple method for coordinating events and data across different systems. Can you describe your experiences with Kafka? What are the operational challenges that you have had to overcome while working with Kafka? When is Kafka the wrong choice?

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They Handle 500B Events Daily. Here’s Their Data Engineering Architecture.

Monte Carlo

Before diving into what makes each company unique, let’s look at the three tools that kept showing up everywhere: Apache Kafka : A distributed event streaming platform that is the standard for moving large amounts of data in real-time. When you request a ride, Uber grabs your location and streams it through Kafka to Flink.

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Kafka Summit New York 2019 Session Videos

Confluent

It seems like there’s a Kafka Summit every other month. We now have the Kafka Summit New York in the books, and the session videos are available in record time. James Watters (Senior VP of Strategy for Pivotal) talked about how Pivotal discovered the criticality of Kafka through its work in microservices transformation.

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Building Transactional Systems Using Apache Kafka

Confluent

This article presents an event-based architecture that retains most transactional properties as provided by an RDBMS, while leveraging Apache Kafka ® as a scalable and highly available single source of truth. Martin Kleppmann argues in his book Designing Data-Intensive Applications that consistency is an application-specific notion.

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How to Build a Scalable Data Architecture with Apache Kafka

KDnuggets

Learn about Apache Kafka architecture and its implementation using a real-world use case of a taxi booking app.

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Getting started with the MongoDB Connector for Apache Kafka and MongoDB

Confluent

Together, MongoDB and Apache Kafka ® make up the heart of many modern data architectures today. Integrating Kafka with external systems like MongoDB is best done though the use of Kafka Connect. The official MongoDB Connector for Apache Kafka is developed and supported by MongoDB engineers. Getting started.

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Six Books that Have Shaped My Data Career

Towards Data Science

In this article, I want to focus on my on-again, off-again relationship with books and reading. I burned out spectacularly about a year into a PhD program, and my relationship with books ended for quite some time. Even if you haven’t read any of the books below, you’ve probably at least heard of some of them.