This article was originally published on the Confluent blog. COVID-19 has created extraordinary challenges in virtually every industry. While much attention has been focused on the pandemic’s effect ...

Conduktor Inc., a startup that specializes in making the popular Apache Kafka data streaming platform easier to use, on Monday announced that it has closed a $20 million investment led by Accel.

Apache Kafka is a fascinating product that solves a problem that almost nobody has. If the Internet is a series of tubes (RIP Ted Stevens), Apache Kafka is the pipe that connects high-volume ...

Drowning in data is not the same as big data. Here's the true definition of big data and a powerful example of how it's being used to power digital transformation. Pulsar is a highly scalable, ...

Value stream management involves people in the organization to examine workflows and other processes to ensure they are deriving the maximum value from their efforts while eliminating waste — of ...

Two types of offset When you start a consumer in the Kafka client, it will read the value of your ConsumerConfig.AUTO_OFFSET_RESET_CONFIG (auto.offset.reset) configuration. If that config is set to ...

Apache Kafka and its accompanying key-value store are being used to provide persistent storage for a growing list of relational databases. Most used a key-value store as a foundation. Among the latest ...