Data contracts are foundational to properly designed and well behaved data pipelines. Kafka and Flink provide the key ...

Apache Kafka is a fascinating product that solves a problem that almost nobody has. If the Internet is a series of tubes (RIP Ted Stevens), Apache Kafka is the pipe that connects high-volume ...

In the previous article, we gained an understanding of the main Kafka components and how Kafka consumers work. Now, we’ll see how these contribute to the ability of Kafka to provide extreme ...

Learn how to use Apache Kafka's partitions, message offsets, and consumer groups to distribute load and scale your applications horizontally, handling up to millions of messages per day ...

Apache Kafka, the open source distributed messaging system, has steadily carved a foothold as the de facto real-time standard for brokering messages in scale out environments. Confluent, the company ...

Apache Kafka startup Confluent Inc. today debuted a new infinite data retention feature within its Confluent Cloud platform that enables customers to store as much related information as they want.

Confluent, the commercial company built on top of the open source Apache Kafka streaming database project, announced today that it has closed a $50 million investment. The round was led by Sequoia ...