At the heart of an effective stream-based architecture is the right message-passing technology. An emerging class of message-passing software, including Apache Kafka and MapR Streams, supports ...

Today on the InfoQ Podcast, Wes Reisz speaks withColin McCabe about Apache Kafka’s KRaft mode. KRaft mode is the new operating mode of Apache Kafka released with 3.3.1 and is the new target ...

Rob Jackson, head of application architecture at Nationwide, highlights that when adopting Apache Kafka, security, scalability and resilience was prioritised as with the emergence of 24/7/365 ...

Apache Kafka architecture In this section, we will examine the architectural components and related terminology in Kafka. Basically, Kafka consists of the following components: ...

Three digital leaders talk about how their businesses are using Confluent Cloud – and they explain how other organizations can benefit, too.

The Singapore-based financial technology company built a distributed microservices architecture to ensure its investment platform remains resilient at all times.

Kafka appears likely to become as important to the modern data architecture as other key Apache technologies such as Hadoop and Spark.

These days, massively scalable pub/sub messaging is virtually synonymous with Apache Kafka. Apache Kafka continues to be the rock-solid, open-source, go-to choice for distributed streaming ...

Apache Kafka is a key component in data pipeline architectures when it comes to ingesting data. Confluent, the commercial entity behind Kafka, wants to leverage this position to become a platform ...