In this section, we will examine the architectural components and related terminology in Kafka. Basically, Kafka consists of the following components: Kafka Cluster—a collection of one or more servers ...

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 ...

Kafka wasn’t the first open source project I was involved in at LinkedIn. We’d also built a key-value store, a workflow system, and a number of other things. The biggest difference with Kafka was that ...

Just about all technology decision-making must meet two essential criteria: it must enable you to meet your business goals and it must work well alongside the rest of your technology stack. When it ...

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The latest trends and issues around the use of open source software in the enterprise. This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Open Source Inside blog written by by Ben Slater in his role as ...

Organizations building real-time stream processing systems on Apache Kafka will be able to trust the platform to deliver each messages exactly once when they adopt new Kafka technology planned to be ...

Streaming is hot. The demand for real-time data processing is rising, and streaming vendors are proliferating and competing. Apache Kafka is a key component in many data pipeline architectures, mostly ...

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