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We are excited to announce the keynote speakers and agenda for Kafka Summit NYC on May 8th! Mirroring the growth of Apache Kafka®, we received an overwhelming number of speaking […]

At the end of 2016 we conducted a survey of the Apache Kafka® community regarding their use of Kafka clients (the producers and consumers used with Kafka) and their priorities […]

As always, we bring you news, updates and recommended content from the hectic world of Apache Kafka® and stream processing. Sometimes it seems that in Apache Kafka every improvement is […]

Seems that many engineers have “Learn Kafka” on their new year resolution list. This isn’t very surprising. Apache Kafka is a popular technology with many use-cases. Armed with basic Kafka […]

Happy 2017! Wishing you a wonderful year full of fast and scalable data streams. Many things have happened since we last shared the state of Apache Kafka® and the streams […]

Last month the Apache Kafka community released version 0.10.1.0, the announcement blog contains a good description of new features and major improvements. In other exciting news, the PMC for Apache […]

This month the community has been focused on the upcoming release of Apache Kafka 0.10.1.0. Led by the fearless release manager, Jason Gustafson, we voted on a release plan, cut […]

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 […]

It is September and it’s evident that everyone is back from their summer vacation! We released Apache Kafka 0.10.0.1 which includes fixes of the bugs in the 0.10.0 release. In […]

It is August already, and this marks exactly one year of monthly “Log Compaction” blog posts – summarizing news from the very active Apache Kafka and stream processing community. Hope […]