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Today, 40,000 people in Las Vegas are thinking about the Cloud—not because the weather is dry in Nevada, but because AWS re:Invent is in full force. Today is a perfect

Update: KSQL is now available as a component of the Confluent Platform. Today we are releasing the first update to KSQL since its launch as a Developer Preview at Kafka

In a previous blog post, we introduced exactly once semantics for Apache Kafka®. That post covered the various message delivery semantics, introduced the idempotent producer, transactions, and the exactly once

Today, we invariably operate in ecosystems: groups of applications and services which together work towards some higher level business goal. When we make these systems event-driven they come with a

We are pleased to invite Tom Underhill to join us as a guest blogger. Tom is Head of R&D at Rittman Mead, a data and analytics company who specialise in

It has been seven years since we first set out to create the distributed streaming platform we know now as Apache Kafka®. Born initially as a highly scalable messaging system,

After three successful Kafka Summits in the United States in 2016 and 2017, we decided the Kafka community was ready to have a Summit in London. And based on the

This guest blog post is the second in a series about the use of Apache Kafka’s Streams API by Zalando, Europe’s largest online fashion retailer. See Ranking Websites in Real-time

This article is by Hunter Kelly, Technical Architect at Zalando. Hunter enjoys using technology, and in particular machine learning, to solve difficult problems. He’s a graduate of the University of

Kafka Streams makes it easy to write scalable, fault-tolerant, and real-time production apps and microservices. This post builds upon a previous post that covered scalable machine learning with Apache Kafka,