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Datacenter downtime and data loss can result in businesses losing a vast amount of revenue or entirely halting operations. To minimize the downtime and data loss resulting from a disaster,

This post was originally published at the Codecentric blog with a focus on “old” join semantics in Apache Kafka versions 0.10.0 and 0.10.1. Version 0.10.0 of the popular distributed streaming

A question people often ask about Apache Kafka® is whether it is okay to use it for longer term storage. Kafka, as you might know, stores a log of records,

Introduction Apache Kafka® is used in thousands of companies, including some of the most demanding, large scale, and critical systems in the world. Its largest users run Kafka across thousands

We saw in the earlier articles (part 1, part 2) in this series how to use the Kafka Connect API to build out a very simple, but powerful and scalable, streaming

At The New York Times we have a number of different systems that are used for producing content. We have several Content Management Systems, and we use third-party data and

Another successful Kafka Summit is in the books! Around 800 Apache Kafka® committers, users, and enthusiasts joined us at the Hilton Union Square in San Francisco for a day of

Update: ksqlDB is the successor to KSQL. Read the announcement to learn more. I’m really excited to announce KSQL, a streaming SQL engine for Apache Kafka®. KSQL lowers the entry

A huge number of people have been hard at work to make today happen. Our speakers have been writing presentations and preparing to teach their audiences about new Apache Kafka®

In the previous article in this blog series I showed how easy it is to stream data out of a database into Apache Kafka®, using the Kafka Connect API. I