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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

While at LinkedIn, he developed the Kafka software—which was open sourced and became a top-level Apache project—and he is now the co-founder of Confluent, a company focused on Kafka. At first glance, ...

Endowus did not always rely on a managed Kafka service. It only signed up for Confluent just over two years ago, when it was growing rapidly and decided not to manage its own Kafka infrastructure.