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 ...

Analytics is often described as one of the biggest challenges associated with big data, but even before that step can happen, data has to be ingested and made available to enterprise users. That’s ...

Apache Kafka is finally getting some serious competition. Apache Pulsar, a distributed messaging platform originally developed at Yahoo! Inc. and open-sourced two years ago, was designated a top-level ...

In a briefing last week, Confluent Co-Founder and CTO, Neha Narkhede, explained to me how Confluent Platform is much more than the open source code and a support contract. Confluent Platform is ...

The exponential growth in data-generating events—spurred by an increasingly digital world—requires businesses to evolve their strategies to properly store, process, leverage, and monetize their data.