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How to Tune RocksDB for Your Kafka Streams Application

Confluent

Apache Kafka ships with Kafka Streams, a powerful yet lightweight client library for Java and Scala to implement highly scalable and elastic applications and microservices that process and analyze data […].

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Stream Rows and Kafka Topics Directly into Snowflake with Snowpipe Streaming

Snowflake

As part of this, we are also supporting Snowpipe Streaming as an ingestion method for our Snowflake Connector for Kafka. Now we are able to ingest our data in near real time directly from Kafka topics to a Snowflake table, drastically reducing the cost of ingestion and improving our SLA from 15 minutes to within 60 seconds.

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My Python/Java/Spring/Go/Whatever Client Won’t Connect to My Apache Kafka Cluster in Docker/AWS/My Brother’s Laptop. Please Help!

Confluent

tl;dr When a client wants to send or receive a message from Apache Kafka®, there are two types of connection that must succeed: The initial connection to a broker (the […].

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Apache Kafka Vs Apache Spark: Know the Differences

Knowledge Hut

Spark Streaming Vs Kafka Stream Now that we have understood high level what these tools mean, it’s obvious to have curiosity around differences between both the tools. Spark Streaming Kafka Streams 1 Data received from live input data streams is Divided into Micro-batched for processing. 6 Spark streaming is a standalone framework.

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Bust the Burglars – Machine Learning with TensorFlow and Apache Kafka

Confluent

How cool would it be to build your own burglar alarm system that can alert you before the actual event takes place simply by using a few network-connected cameras and analyzing the camera images with Apache Kafka ® , Kafka Streams, and TensorFlow? Uploading your images into Kafka. Setting up your burglar alarm.

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Spring for Apache Kafka Deep Dive – Part 2: Apache Kafka and Spring Cloud Stream

Confluent

On the heels of part one in this blog series, Spring for Apache Kafka – Part 1: Error Handling, Message Conversion and Transaction Support , here in part two we’ll focus on another project that enhances the developer experience when building streaming applications on Kafka: Spring Cloud Stream. What is Spring Cloud Stream?

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Getting Started with Rust and Apache Kafka

Confluent

I’ve written an event sourcing bank simulation in Clojure (a lisp build for Java virtual machines or JVMs) called open-bank-mark , which you are welcome to read about in my previous blog post explaining the story behind this open source example. The schemas are also useful for generating specific Java classes. The bank application.

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