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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

For those of you who are hungry for more stream processing, we are pleased to share the recent release of Confluent’s Stream Processing Cookbook, which features short and tasteful KSQL

In this blog post, we show you how to build a demo streaming application with KSQL, the streaming SQL engine for Apache Kafka®. This application continuously computes, in real time,

ksqlDB is the event streaming database purpose-built for stream processing applications that enables real-time data processing against Apache Kafka®. ksqlDB makes it easy to read, write and process streaming data

As your Apache Kafka® deployment starts to grow, the benefits of using a schema registry quickly become compelling. Confluent Schema Registry, which is included in the Confluent Platform, enables you

Apache Kafka and Apache Mesos are very well-known and successful Apache projects. A lot has happened in these projects since Confluent’s last blog post on the topic in July 2015.

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

In this blog post, we’re going to get back to basics and walk through how to get started using Apache Kafka with your Python applications. We will assume some basic

Introduction What’s great about the Kafka Streams API is not just how fast your application can process data with it, but also how fast you can get up and running

This is a guest blog post by Stephane Maarek. Stephane is an IT consultant at Simple Machines. You can check his GitHub or connect with him on LinkedIn. If you use Apache Kafka