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The Rise of Managed Services for Apache Kafka

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As a distributed system for collecting, storing, and processing data at scale, Apache Kafka ® comes with its own deployment complexities. To simplify all of this, different providers have emerged to offer Apache Kafka as a managed service. Before Confluent Cloud was announced , a managed service for Apache Kafka did not exist.

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ApacheCon, 9-12 September 2019, USA (Las Vegas) Report—a Look Back at Core, Complementary, and Competing Technologies

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This blog provides a brief of things I learnt during the 4-day event, including a summary of talks I attended and presented. We have talks in the Cassandra and Observability tracks, but I’m attending (and blogging about) talks in other tracks that have interesting or challenging use cases (e.g. Source: Shutterstock).