That, the company claimed, illustrates how open source projects like Kafka are gaining traction in large enterprises as companies seek to leverage the stable platform’s ability to scale while speeding ...

Kafka's letters and notebooks reveal a surprising link between his Schriftstellersein 'literary being' and what he regarded as his fundamentally bureaucratic nature. Kafka used the term Beamtengeist ...

Kafka is also an open-source stream-processing platform, but it’s used mostly for transporting data between systems, applications, data producers and consumers.

Newcomer Idan Weiss stars as the iconic Czech writer in the new biopic from the director of 'Green Border' and 'In Darkness' ...

Database technology is absolutely critical for business success. While not commonly thought of as a database, Apache Kafka, the open source stream-processing software platform, has many unique ...

In this section, we will examine the architectural components and related terminology in Kafka. Basically, Kafka consists of the following components: Kafka Cluster—a collection of one or more ...

Data startup Confluent has Silicon Valley buzzing about its Apache Kafka software. Here's 3 reasons why its cofounders were able to successfully incubate their idea while at LinkedIn.

Apache Kafka is great and all, but it's an early adopter thing, goes the conventional wisdom. Jay Kreps, Kafka co-creator and Confluent CEO, digresses. Mainstream adoption is happening, and it's ...

Data pipelines were the headline from the third annual survey of Apache Kafka use. Behind anecdotal evidence of a growing user base, Kafka is still at the early adopter stage and skills remain ...

Kafka was open-sourced in 2011. Last year, three of Kafka’s creators launched Confluent, a startup dedicated to helping enterprises use it in production at scale.