Apache Kafka is finally getting some serious competition. Apache Pulsar, a distributed messaging platform originally developed at Yahoo! Inc. and open-sourced two years ago, was designated a top-level ...

Apache Spark has become the de facto standard for processing data at scale, whether for querying large datasets, training machine learning models to predict future trends, or processing streaming data ...

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Analytics is often described as one of the biggest challenges associated with big data, but even before that step can happen, data has to be ingested and made available to enterprise users. That’s ...

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 ...

In a briefing last week, Confluent Co-Founder and CTO, Neha Narkhede, explained to me how Confluent Platform is much more than the open source code and a support contract. Confluent Platform is ...

The open-source technology behind hot startup Confluent, which allows companies to stream vast amounts of data for near-instant use, has earned it supporters at a who’s who of tech companies (think ...

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 ...

Confluent, the commercial company built on top of the open source Apache Kafka streaming database project, announced today that it has closed a $50 million investment. The round was led by Sequoia ...

The exponential growth in data-generating events—spurred by an increasingly digital world—requires businesses to evolve their strategies to properly store, process, leverage, and monetize their data.