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I’ve written an event sourcing bank simulation in Clojure (a lisp build for Java virtual machines or JVMs) called open-bank-mark, which you are welcome to read about in my previous […]

If you’ve worked with the Apache Kafka® and Confluent ecosystem before, chances are you’ve used a Kafka Connect connector to stream data into Kafka or stream data out of it. […]

Trains are an excellent source of streaming data—their movements around the network are an unbounded series of events. Using this data, Apache Kafka® and Confluent Platform can provide the foundations […]

The Internet of Things (IoT) is getting more and more traction as valuable use cases come to light. A key challenge, however, is integrating devices and machines to process the […]

Last week, the Kafka Summit hosted nearly 2,000 people from 40 different countries and 595 companies—the largest Summit yet. By the numbers, we got to enjoy four keynote speakers, 56 […]

As the head of global customer marketing at Confluent, I tell people I have the best job. As we provide a complete event streaming platform that is radically changing how […]

This tutorial describes how to set up a sample Spring Boot application in Pivotal Application Service (PAS), which consumes and produces events to an Apache Kafka® cluster running in Pivotal […]

This tutorial describes how to set up an Apache Kafka® cluster on Enterprise Pivotal Container Service (Enterprise PKS) using Confluent Operator, which allows you to deploy and run Confluent Platform […]

We recently launched a new artificial intelligence (AI) data extraction API called Scrapinghub AutoExtract, which turns article and product pages into structured data. At Scrapinghub, we specialize in web data […]

If you looked at the Kafka Summits I’ve been a part of as a sequence of immutable events (and they are, unless you know something about time I don’t), it […]

Day 1 of the event, summarized for your convenience. They say you never forget your first Kafka Summit. Mine was in New York City in 2017, and it had, what, […]

Go from zero to production on Apache Kafka® without talking to sales reps or building infrastructure Apache Kafka is the standard for event-driven applications. But it’s not without its challenges, […]

Robust data governance support through Schema Validation on write is now supported in Confluent Platform 5.4. Schema Validation enables the broker to verify that data produced to an Apache Kafka® […]

In the early days, many companies simply used Apache Kafka® for data ingestion into Hadoop or another data lake. However, Apache Kafka is more than just messaging. The significant difference […]