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Updating a fundamental paradigm in your React app can be as easy as search and replace, or at other times, as difficult as convincing your entire frontend engineering to buy

At the heart of Apache Kafka® sits the log—a simple data structure that uses sequential operations that work symbiotically with the underlying hardware. Efficient disk buffering and CPU cache usage,

Apache Kafka® is at the heart of the data transportation layer at Pinterest. The amount of data that runs through Kafka has constantly grown over the years. This growth sometimes

Software engineering memes are in vogue, and nothing is more fashionable than joking about how complicated distributed systems can be. Despite the ribbing, many people adopt them. Why? Distributed systems

In April, we kicked off Project Metamorphosis. Project Metamorphosis is an effort to bring the simplicity of best of breed cloud systems to the world of event streaming. It is

Apache Kafka® is the de facto standard for event streaming today. The semantics of the partitioned consumer model that Kafka pioneered have enabled scale at a level and at a

The rise of IoT devices means that we have to collect, process, and analyze orders of magnitude more data than ever before. As sensors and devices become ever more ubiquitous,

Fraud detection, payment systems, and stock trading platforms are only a few of many Apache Kafka® use cases that require both fast and predictable delivery of data. For example, detecting

There is a coming and a going / A parting and often no—meeting again. —Franz Kafka, 1897 Load balancing and scheduling are at the heart of every distributed system, and

In the last year, we’ve experienced enormous growth on Confluent Cloud, our fully managed Apache Kafka® service. Confluent Cloud now handles several GB/s of traffic—a 200-fold increase in just six