Originally developed at LinkedIn, Apache Kafka is one of the most mature platforms for event streaming. Kafka is used for high-performance data pipelines, streaming analytics, data integration ...

Change is coming for users of Apache Kafka, the leading distributed event-streaming platform. Apache ZooKeeper, Kafka’s metadata management tool, will soon be phased out in favor of internal ...

The first offering, Northguard, is a new log storage system engineered for scalability, high throughput and operational efficiency. Unlike Kafka, which began to show limitations as LinkedIn scaled to ...

Kafka’s SQL interface for interrogating multiple streams allowed him to untangle the mess of ADS-B returns and generate a meaningful feed of aircraft.

The company founded by Apache Kafka's creators introduces infinite data retention on its Confluent Cloud platform. As a result, the company is pushing the event streaming data technology as a ...

Shiny new objects are easy to find in the big data space. So when the industry’s attention shifted towards processing streams of data in real time–as opposed to batch-style processing that was popular ...

Organizations building real-time stream processing systems on Apache Kafka will be able to trust the platform to deliver each messages exactly once when they adopt new Kafka technology planned to be ...

Jay Kreps, Founder and CEO of Confluent (and co-creator of Apache Kafka) Courtesy of Jay Kreps and Confluent When Jay Kreps was at LinkedIn, he had several mission-critical responsibilities.

Conduktor is an all-in-one graphical user interface that makes it easier to work with Apache Kafka via a desktop client.

Data startup Confluent has Silicon Valley buzzing about its Apache Kafka software. Here's 3 reasons why its cofounders were able to successfully incubate their idea while at LinkedIn.