Leveraging the Power of a Database ‘Unbundled’
When you build microservices using Apache Kafka®, the log can be used as more than just a communication protocol. It can be used to store events: messaging that remembers. This […]
The Simplest Useful Kafka Connect Data Pipeline in the World…or Thereabouts – Part 1
This short series of articles is going to show you how to stream data from a database (MySQL) into Apache Kafka® and from Kafka into both a text file and Elasticsearch—all […]
Are You Ready for Kafka Summit San Francisco?
Just a few months ago, hundreds of Apache Kafka® users and leaders from 400+ companies and 20 countries gathered in New York City to learn about the latest Kafka developments […]
Messaging as the Single Source of Truth
This post discusses Event Sourcing in the context of Apache Kafka®, examining the need for a single source of truth that spans entire service estates. Events are Truth One of […]
We’ll Say This Exactly Once: Confluent Platform 3.3 is Available Now
Confluent Platform and Apache Kafka® have come a long way from the time of their origin story. Like superheroes finding out they have powers, the latest updates always seem to […]
Chain Services with Exactly-Once Guarantees
This fourth post in the microservices series looks at how we can sew together complex chains of services, efficiently, and accurately, using Apache Kafka’s Exactly-Once guarantees. Duplicates, Duplicates Everywhere Any […]
Real-time Financial Alerts at Rabobank with Apache Kafka’s Streams API
This article discusses the use of Apache Kafka’s Streams API for sending out alerts to customers of Rabobank. Rabobank is based in the Netherlands with over 900 locations worldwide, 48,000 employees, […]
Using Apache Kafka as a Scalable, Event-Driven Backbone for Service Architectures
The last post in this microservices series looked at building systems on a backbone of events, where events become both a trigger as well as a mechanism for distributing state. […]
Upgrading Apache Kafka Clients Just Got Easier
This is a very exciting time to be part of the Apache Kafka® community! Every four months, a new Apache Kafka release brings additional features and improvements. We’re particularly excited […]
Exactly-once Semantics are Possible: Here’s How Kafka Does it
I’m thrilled that we have hit an exciting milestone the Kafka community has long been waiting for: we have introduced exactly-once semantics in Apache Kafka in the 0.11 release and […]