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

Unifying multiple data sources and repositories is a challenge that Etsy, Inc. is solving with the Apache Kafka messaging system. Chris “CB” Bohn, senior database engineer for the Etsy online ...

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

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 ...

Confluent, the company that built a streaming service on top of the open source Apache Kafka project, has always been about helping companies capture streams of data. First it was on prem, then later ...

What’s behind the rapid rise in Apache Kafka? According to a new survey of Kafka users by Confluent, the commercial venture behind Kafka, the data pipeline’s capability to “massively simplify” the IT ...

In a connected world, real-time data pipelines power applications and insights, providing the digital infrastructure for active data. This helps data-driven companies understand how their customer ...

Today we know that data flows to such an extent that we now talk about data streaming, but what is it and how do we harness this computing principle? Image: Mark/Adobe Stock Data flows. Even when data ...