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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. Just like with Netflix, requesting an Uber starts a bigger data journey in the background.

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

Workfall

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. It offers a unified solution to real-time data needs any organisation might have. This is where Apache Kafka comes in.

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A Dive into Apache Flume: Installation, Setup, and Configuration

Analytics Vidhya

Introduction Apache Flume is a tool/service/data ingestion mechanism for gathering, aggregating, and delivering huge amounts of streaming data from diverse sources, such as log files, events, and so on, to centralized data storage. Flume is a tool that is very dependable, distributed, and customizable.

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On-Premise vs Cloud: Where Does the Future of Data Storage Lie?

Monte Carlo

Real-time data for operational decision making In the modern data stack, data can move fast enough that it no longer needs to be reserved for those daily metric pulse checks. Data teams can take advantage of Delta live tables , Snowpark , Kafka , Kinesis , micro-batching and more.

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8 Essential Data Pipeline Design Patterns You Should Know

Monte Carlo

The people behind Apache Kafka asked themselves the same question , so they invented the Kappa Architecture, where instead of having both batching and streaming layers, everything is real-time with the whole stream of data stored in a central log like Kafka.

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What is an AI Data Engineer? 4 Important Skills, Responsibilities, & Tools

Monte Carlo

Data Engineering Tools Data engineers need to be comfortable using essential tools for data pipeline management and workflow orchestration, including Apache Kafka, Apache Spark, Airflow, Dagster, dbt, and many more. Data Storage Solutions As we all know, data can be stored in a variety of ways.