The Kafka Streams API boasts a number of capabilities that make it well suited for maintaining the global state of a distributed system. At Imperva, we took advantage of Kafka […]
Using Jaeger tracing, I’ve been able to answer an important question that nearly every Apache Kafka® project that I’ve worked on posed: how is data flowing through my distributed system? […]
Apache Kafka has a data structure called the “request purgatory”. The purgatory holds any request that hasn’t yet met its criteria to succeed but also hasn’t yet resulted in an […]
This post was jointly written by Neha Narkhede, co-creator of Apache Kafka, and Flavio Junqueira, co-creator of Apache ZooKeeper. Many distributed systems that we build and use currently rely on dependencies like […]
One of the things I realised while doing research for my book is that contemporary software engineering still has a lot to learn from the 1970s. As we’re in such […]
This is a repost of a recent article that I wrote for ODBMS. In the last few years, there has been significant growth in the adoption of Apache Kafka. Current […]
We are very excited to announce general availability of Confluent Platform 1.0, a stream data platform powered by Apache Kafka, that enables high-throughput, scalable, reliable and low latency stream data […]
