Category: Streaming/Kafka

Apache Kafka is now the official gatekeeper of streaming data. It’s a distributed data store designed and perfectly calibrated to ingest and process streaming data (ie, data continuously generated by thousands of sources) in real time.  As both the amount and value of streaming data rapidly grow, it’s becoming increasingly important for companies to start [...]

Everyone has Kafka issues. Well, maybe not everyone, but most companies that end up using Apache Kafka in any meaningful way do end up facing certain Kafka challenges, most of which aren’t necessarily easy to resolve.  First off — why are companies even using Kafka in the first place?  In today’s real-time era, more and [...]