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5 Key Takeaways from #Current2023

Cloudera

Recently, Confluent hosted Current 2023 (formerly Kafka summit) in San Jose on Sept 26th and 27th. This blog is for anyone who was interested but unable to attend the conference, or anyone interested in a quick summary of what happened there. More of a Confluent conference now than a kafka conference. Flink is here to stay.

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The Good and the Bad of Apache Kafka Streaming Platform

Altexsoft

Though Kafka is not the only option available in the market, it definitely stands out from other brokers and deserves special attention. Kafka is set up and run as a cluster — a group of servers or brokers that manage communication between two types of clients, producers and consumers (publishers and subscribers in general Pub/Sub terms).