What is an Apache Kafka Cluster? (And Why You Should Care)
Confluent
AUGUST 8, 2023
Learn what an Apache Kafka cluster is, and what makes a cluster special.
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Confluent
AUGUST 8, 2023
Learn what an Apache Kafka cluster is, and what makes a cluster special.
Confluent
JUNE 28, 2023
Get an introduction into the world of events and event-driven architecture in Apache Kafka. Learn what events are and the role they play in event design, event streaming, and event-driven design.
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TechCrunch
JUNE 2, 2021
What does Confluent do? It built a streaming data platform on top of the open-source Apache Kafka project. Kafka itself emerged from a LinkedIn internal project in 2011. Is Confluent’s work with Kafka a good business? billion when it raised $250 million last April. That’s where Confluent comes in.
Dzone - DevOps
APRIL 25, 2023
This is a tool for managing Apache Kafka clusters that allow us to view all the topics, partitions, numbers of offsets, and which are assigned to what and all topics, etc.
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Dzone - DevOps
OCTOBER 17, 2023
Apache Kafka has emerged as a clear leader in corporate architecture for moving from data at rest (DB transactions) to event streaming. There are many presentations that explain how Kafka works and how to scale this technology stack (either on-premise or cloud).
Xebia
APRIL 13, 2023
Working on training material for Circe last year and talking about Kafka, I was introduced to Vulcan. For those that aren’t familiar, Vulcan is a functional Avro encoding library that uses the official Apache Avro library under the hood. How do I actually use it with Kafka? At a basic level, this is all we need.
Confluent
DECEMBER 15, 2020
Consuming messages in parallel is what Apache Kafka® is all about, so you may well wonder, why would we want anything else? It turns out that, in practice, there are […].
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 23, 2022
Portland, Oregon-based startup thatDot , which focuses on streaming event processing, today announced the launch of Quine , a new MIT-licensed open source project for data engineers that combines event streaming with graph data to create what the company calls a “streaming graph.”
Cloudera
MARCH 5, 2024
Cloudera is now the only provider to offer an open data lakehouse with Apache Iceberg for cloud and on-premises. Apache Ozone As AI and other advanced analytics continue to grow in scale, performance and scalable data storage will need to expand right along with them. But even with its rise, AI is still a struggle for some enterprises.
Dzone - DevOps
MARCH 26, 2023
After successfully starting a Redpanda or Apache Kafka® cluster, you want to stream data into it right away. No matter what tool and language you chose, you will immediately be asked for a list of bootstrap servers for your client to connect to it. Let’s start with the basics. The diagram below will give you a better idea.
Cloudera
JULY 18, 2022
In part 1 of this blog we discussed how Cloudera DataFlow for the Public Cloud (CDF-PC), the universal data distribution service powered by Apache NiFi, can make it easy to acquire data from wherever it originates and move it efficiently to make it available to other applications in a streaming fashion.
TechCrunch
APRIL 5, 2022
But what do you do with it now? When it comes to data ingestion, Tinybird has connectors for various popular data sources, such as databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL…), CSV files hosted in a storage bucket on a public cloud, data warehouses and data streams, from Amazon Redshift to Google BigQuery, Snowflake and Apache Kafka.
Perficient
MARCH 6, 2023
Introduction: Apache Kafka is a distributed streaming platform that enables businesses to build real-time streaming applications. Kafka can process and transmit massive amounts of data in real-time, and its design ensures fault tolerance, scalability, and high availability. Kafka utilizes a pull-based model for consumers.
Cloudera
SEPTEMBER 13, 2023
I started my current career path with Hortonworks in 2016, back when we still had to tell people what Hadoop was. Once I got to work with all the amazing open-source Apache tools I was hooked. I found Apache NiFi especially interesting. Soon after, I became a huge fan of Apache Kafka.
Cloudera
MARCH 2, 2023
Recently, we announced enhanced multi-function analytics support in Cloudera Data Platform (CDP) with Apache Iceberg. The CSP engine is powered by Apache Flink, which is the best-in-class processing engine for stateful streaming pipelines. Iceberg is a high-performance open table format for huge analytic data sets.
Cloudera
JUNE 7, 2021
It enabled users to easily write, run and manage real-time SQL queries on streams from Apache Kafka with an exceptionally smooth user experience. . Improved Kafka and Schema Registry integration. Improved Kafka and Schema Registry integration. We have further streamlined the integration with Kafka and Schema Registry.
Mobilunity
APRIL 29, 2023
From this article, you’ll learn which solutions use Netflix and Disney and watch the AWS Kinesis vs Kafka “battle.“ However, the list of top data streaming solutions is much shorter: Kafka and Kinesis. For instance, Netflix uses Apache Kafka , and Disney+ uses Kinesis. Let’s check.
Cloudera
FEBRUARY 21, 2023
SQL Stream Builder (SSB) is a versatile platform for data analytics using SQL as a part of Cloudera Streaming Analytics, built on top of Apache Flink. What is a data transformation? This transformation can be performed on incoming records of a Kafka topic before SSB sees the data. If the messages are inconsistent.
Instaclustr
SEPTEMBER 28, 2021
In the last installment of the pipeline blog series , we explored writing streaming JSON data into PostgreSQL using Kafka Connect. What Is Apache Superset? What is Apache Superset? But what if you aren’t an SQL guru? In this blog, I wanted to get Apache Superset working with PostgreSQL.
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 2, 2022
“If you wanted fast data, you used the stream processing stack [like Kafka and Confluent], right? What open source-based startups can learn from Confluent’s success story. He created a tool to do this called Hudi , which Uber donated to the Apache Software Foundation as an open source project the following year.
Confluent
MAY 13, 2019
In the last year, we’ve experienced enormous growth on Confluent Cloud, our fully managed Apache Kafka ® service. As Confluent Cloud has grown, we’ve noticed two gaps that very clearly remain to be filled in managed Apache Kafka services. Five seconds to Kafka (or, never make another cluster again!).
Confluent
MARCH 26, 2019
Apache-Kafka ® -based applications stand out for their ability to decouple producers and consumers using an event log as an intermediate layer. This article describes how to instrument Kafka-based applications with distributed tracing capabilities in order to make dataflows between event-based components more visible.
Cloudera
JUNE 28, 2022
We discussed how Cloudera Stream Processing (CSP) with Apache Kafka and Apache Flink could be used to process this data in real time and at scale. This is what we call the first-mile problem. The scored transactions are written to the Kafka topic that will feed the real-time analytics process that runs on Apache Flink.
Instaclustr
AUGUST 6, 2021
Why Use the Kafka REST Proxy. Apache Kafka is known best as a powerful, open source message streaming and queueing solution. Used across more than 80% of the Fortune 500, Kafka is ubiquitous in supporting event-driven architectures. Read Now: Apache Kafka Architecture – The complete guide.
Confluent
MAY 23, 2019
Let us cut to the chase: Kafka Summit London session videos are available! If you were there, you know what a great time it was, and you know that you had to make sometimes-agonizing decisions about which sessions to attend and which to miss. World-class Kafka keynotes. And if you weren’t there? Well, dig in and start learning!
Confluent
FEBRUARY 6, 2019
The blog posts How to Build and Deploy Scalable Machine Learning in Production with Apache Kafka and Using Apache Kafka to Drive Cutting-Edge Machine Learning describe the benefits of leveraging the Apache Kafka ® ecosystem as a central, scalable and mission-critical nervous system.
CIO
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
We manage database services for our customers, database services in the cloud, open source technologies such as Postgres, MySQL, Apache, Kafka,” says Sellers. “We We help customers adopt those services so they can focus on what they do best, which is building technology for their customers.”.
Cloudera
OCTOBER 4, 2022
This blog post will provide guidance to administrators currently using or interested in using Kafka nodes to maintain cluster changes as they scale up or down to balance performance and cloud costs in production deployments. Kafka brokers contained within host groups enable the administrators to more easily add and remove nodes.
Cloudera
JANUARY 31, 2024
Streams Replication Manager (SRM) is an enterprise-grade replication solution that enables fault tolerant, scalable, and robust cross-cluster Kafka topic replication. Introduction Kafka as an event streaming component can be applied to a wide variety of use cases. Replication can be dynamically enabled for topics and consumer groups.
Confluent
FEBRUARY 28, 2019
Only a little more than one month after the first release, we are happy to announce another milestone for our Kafka integration. Today, you can grab the Kafka Connect Neo4j Sink from Confluent Hub. . Neo4j extension – Kafka sink refresher. Then it is really up to you what you want to with the event data.
OpenCredo
NOVEMBER 22, 2023
Here at OpenCredo we love projects that are based around Kafka and/or Data/Platform Engineering; in one of our recent projects, we created an open data lake using Kafka, Flink, Nessie and Iceberg. Apache Flink is designed for distributed streams and batch processing, handling real-time and historical data.
Instaclustr
SEPTEMBER 28, 2021
In the last installment of the pipeline blog series , we explored writing streaming JSON data into PostgreSQL using Kafka Connect. What Is Apache Superset? What is Apache Superset? But what if you aren’t an SQL guru? In this blog, I wanted to get Apache Superset working with PostgreSQL.
Confluent
MAY 14, 2019
Without people writing code, writing tutorials, welcoming newcomers, giving presentations, and answering questions, what we have is not a community, but just a set of Git repositories. What does it take to be a Confluent Community Catalyst? What does it take to be a Confluent Community Catalyst? What does a Catalyst get?
Cloudera
AUGUST 24, 2021
As a Software Engineer at Cloudera, Barnabas gets to experience rewarding work with emerging technologies like Apache Kafka. As he sees it, “Kafka is a famous and widely used project. The team is not just about Kafka, but other components that are built around Kafka too, so we can work on different projects, full of challenges.
Instaclustr
OCTOBER 18, 2021
In Part 6 and Part 7 of the pipeline series we took a different path in the pipe/tunnel and explored PostgreSQL and Apache Superset, mainly from a functional perspective—how can you get JSON data into PostgreSQL from Kafka Connect, and what does it look like in Superset. Here’s what the Elasticsearch results look like.
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 30, 2020
Fundamentally what that means is that you’re going to have to go to businesses using the technologies and tools that they understand, which is standard SQL,” Narayan explained. . The startup is working on a SaaS version of the product, which it expects to release some time next year. Cockroach Labs scores $86.6M
Cloudera
JUNE 7, 2021
We are excited to be recognized in this wave at, what we consider to be, such a strong position. The report states that richness of analytics, development tool options and near-effortless scalability are what streaming analytics customers should look for in a provider. . It’s too late. Stay tuned for cool product announcements.
Confluent
JUNE 12, 2019
Confluent Cloud, a fully managed event cloud-native streaming service that extends the value of Apache Kafka ® , is simple, resilient, secure, and performant, allowing you to focus on what is important—building contextual event-driven applications, not infrastructure. and Helm/Tiller 2.8.2+ KSQL, Schema Registry).
TechCrunch
AUGUST 23, 2021
TechCrunch sits down with three leading investors to discuss how they are fighting for allocation in hot deals, what they’ve changed in their own processes, and what today’s best founders are demanding. We’re going to talk to CEO Ali Ghodsi about why his startup is so hot, and what comes next. TechCrunch Sessions is back!
Confluent
JULY 11, 2019
Reading, writing, and transforming data in Apache Kafka ® using KSQL is an effective way to rapidly deliver event streaming applications for clients (e.g., For a KSQL newbie the practical exercises show you how to process data in Apache Kafka using an interactive SQL interface. streaming insurance events ).
Confluent
FEBRUARY 20, 2019
How many Kafka Summits should there be in a year? Others say you should live every day like it’s Kafka Summit. Anyway, let me remind you of the dates and places: Kafka Summit New York – April 2, 2019. Kafka Summit London – May 13-14, 2019. Kafka Summit San Francisco – Sept. Kafka Summit London agenda is open.
Cloudera
DECEMBER 10, 2020
In the previous post, we talked about Kerberos authentication and explained how to configure a Kafka client to authenticate using Kerberos credentials. In this post we will look into how to configure a Kafka client to authenticate using LDAP, instead of Kerberos. We use the Kafka-console-consumer for all the examples below.
Cloudera
JANUARY 20, 2021
Most of what is written though has to do with the enabling technology platforms (cloud or edge or point solutions like data warehouses) or use cases that are driving these benefits (predictive analytics applied to preventive maintenance, financial institution’s fraud detection, or predictive health monitoring as examples) not the underlying data.
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