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Apache Kafka® is an event streaming platform used by more than 30% of the Fortune 500 today. There are numerous features of Kafka that make it the de-facto standard for

Users of messaging technologies such as JMS and AMQP often use message prioritization so that messages can be processed in a different order based on their importance. It doesn’t take

Apache Kafka® is one of the most popular event streaming systems. There are many ways to compare systems in this space, but one thing everyone cares about is performance. Kafka

Kafka Connect is part of Apache Kafka® and is a powerful framework for building streaming pipelines between Kafka and other technologies. It can be used for streaming data into Kafka

Choosing the right messaging system during your architectural planning is always a challenge, yet one of the most important considerations to nail. As a developer, I write applications daily that

When we released Apache Kafka 0.9.0.0, we talked about all of the big new features we added: the new consumer, Kafka Connect, security features, and much more. What we didn’t