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Apache Pulsar Ready for Prime Time

A streaming and messaging system aimed at stream processing has been elevated from incubator to “top-level project” status by the Apache Foundation. Apache Pulsar was released as open source by Yahoo in 2016 and Read more…

Confluent Strengthens IoT Integration for Enterprise Kafka

A new release of Confluent's enterprise Kafka platform unveiled Tuesday should make it easier for developers to integrate streaming Internet of Things (IoT) data into their analytics infrastructure. The company's release Read more…

Apache Pulsar 2.0 Released

Apache Pulsar, the distributed “publish and subscribe” messaging platform released to the open source community by Yahoo nearly two years ago is generating streaming messaging capabilities aimed at enterprise data-dr Read more…

How Pandora Uses Kafka

As a big Hadoop user, Pandora Media is no stranger to distributed processing technologies. But when the music streaming service decided to transition its ad tracking system from a batch-oriented system into a real-time o Read more…

Confluent Moves Kafka to the Cloud

As adoption of the Apache Kafka accelerates, the company behind the data pipeline is rolling a cloud service designed to boost "developer velocity" while IT operations are handled in the background. Confluent said Mon Read more…

Kafka ‘Massively Simplifies’ Data Infrastructure, Report Says

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 infrastructure of en Read more…

How Kafka Redefined Data Processing for the Streaming Age

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 fast becoming a new an Read more…

Kinetica Joins Growing List of Kafka Connectors

As large enterprises move big data via Apache Kafka, the open source data-messaging platform is gaining more adherents in response to Kafka pioneer Confluent Inc.'s release of a commercial platform for connecting data in Read more…

Exactly Once: Why It’s Such a Big Deal for Apache Kafka

Organizations building real-time stream processing systems on Apache Kafka will be able to trust the platform to deliver each messages exactly once when they adopt new Kafka technology planned to be unveiled this spring, Read more…

VoltDB Combines Streaming, Global Data

Emphasizing its ability to ingest and analyze "data in the moment," in-memory relational database specialist VoltDB rolled out the latest version of its flagship platform that includes new features to support streaming d Read more…

Kafka Gets Server, API Upgrades

The latest feature release from the Apache Kafka stream processing community includes server support for time-based search along with more than 200 bug fixes and other improvements. Confluent Inc., founded by the team Read more…

Commercial Kafka Distro Gets Global Smarts

Companies operating multiple Apache Kafka clusters in on-premise and cloud data centers will benefit from a handful of new enterprise-level features unveiled at the Strata + Hadoop World conference today by Confluent, th Read more…

Kafka Creators Tackle Consistency Problem in Data Pipelines

One of the big questions surrounding the rise of real-time stream processing applications is consistency. When you have a distributed application involving thousands of data sources and data consumers, how can you be sur Read more…

Apache Kafka Gains Traction Among Enterprise Users

The embrace of stream processing and real-time data access is driving enterprise adoption of the Apache Kafka distributed messaging system, according to an industry survey released at a Kafka summit this week. Conflue Read more…

The Real-Time Rise of Apache Kafka

Shiny new objects are easy to find in the big data space. So when the industry's attention shifted towards processing streams of data in real time--as opposed to batch-style processing that was popular with first-generat Read more…

Kafka Gets a Stream-Processing Makeover

A new library for building streaming applications seeks to shift the focus from analytics to developing core application used to process data streams. Confluent Inc. announced a technical preview this week of a new te Read more…

Taming Apache Storm for Real-Time Analytics

Apache Storm is gaining a foothold among organizations looking to do real-time analytics on streaming data. However, the difficulty in working with the distributed processing framework is proving to be a major hurdle to Read more…

LinkedIn Spinoff Confluent to Extend Kafka

The LinkedIn team that built the Apache Kafka real-time messaging service has left to form a new company called Confluent. The startup said it would offer a "real-time data platform" built around Apache Kafka. Along w Read more…

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