Data contracts are foundational to properly designed and well behaved data pipelines. Kafka and Flink provide the key ...

IBM's $11B Confluent acquisition completes its hybrid cloud stack, with Kafka streaming joining Red Hat and HashiCorp for ...

Hadoop and big data platforms were originally known for scale, not speed. But the arrival of high performance compute engines like Spark and streaming engines have cleared the way for bringing batch ...

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Confluent sells an enterprise version of the open-source Kafka data streaming platform, which it said is used by 80% of the ...

What are the challenges you faced in building a fully managed cloud-native Kafka services? How does Confluent engineering solve these things? Will LaForest: When we began Confluent’s journey to create ...

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 ...

The Apache Kafka phenomenon reached a new high today when Confluent announced a $50 million investment from the venture capital firm Sequoia. The investment signals renewed confidence that Kafka is ...

Event-driven architectures are wonderful. But Kafka was never intended to be a database, and using it as a database won’t solve your problem. It’s a tale as old as time. An enterprise is struggling ...

When Confluent launched a cloud service in 2017, it was trying to reduce some of the complexity related to running a Kafka streaming data application. Today, it introduced a free tier to that cloud ...