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We saw in the earlier articles (part 1, part 2) in this series how to use the Kafka Connect API to build out a very simple, but powerful and scalable, streaming

In the previous article in this blog series I showed how easy it is to stream data out of a database into Apache Kafka®, using the Kafka Connect API. I

This short series of articles is going to show you how to stream data from a database (MySQL) into Apache Kafka® and from Kafka into both a text file and Elasticsearch—all

I’m thrilled that we have hit an exciting milestone the Apache Kafka® community has long been waiting for: we have  introduced exactly-once semantics in Kafka in the 0.11 release and

There has been a lot of talk recently that traditional ETL is dead. In the traditional ETL paradigm, data warehouses were king, ETL jobs were batch-driven, everything talked to everything

This is a guest blog from Alexandra Wang, Software Engineer, Pandora Media. You can connect with her on LinkedIn. Also special thanks to Lawrence Weikum and Stu Thompson as contributors of the work in this post.

The following post is a guest blog by Paige Roberts, Product Manager, Syncsort. Paige spent 19 years in the data management industry in a wide variety of roles – programmer, analyst, trainer,

Note As of February 2021, Confluent has launched its own Oracle CDC connector. Read this blog post for the latest information.

Amazon’s AWS cloud is doing really well. Doing well to the tune of making $2.57 Billion in Q1 2016. That’s 64% up from Q1 last year. Clearly a lot of

This guest post is written by Andrew Stevenson, CTO at DataMountaineer. Andrew focuses on providing real-time data pipelines allowing reactive decision making, streaming analytics and big data integration. He has