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KSQL is the streaming SQL engine for Apache Kafka®. It lets you do sophisticated stream processing on Kafka topics, easily, using a simple and interactive SQL interface. In this short

At Pinterest, we use Kafka Streams API to provide inflight spend data to thousands of ads servers in mere seconds. Our ads engineering team works hard to ensure we’re providing

Scalable Machine Learning in Production with Apache Kafka® Intelligent real time applications are a game changer in any industry. Machine learning and its sub-topic, deep learning, are gaining momentum because

Datacenter downtime and data loss can result in businesses losing a vast amount of revenue or entirely halting operations. To minimize the downtime and data loss resulting from a disaster,

This post was originally published at the Codecentric blog with a focus on “old” join semantics in Apache Kafka versions 0.10.0 and 0.10.1. Version 0.10.0 of the popular distributed streaming

A question people often ask about Apache Kafka® is whether it is okay to use it for longer term storage. Kafka, as you might know, stores a log of records,

Introduction Apache Kafka® is used in thousands of companies, including some of the most demanding, large scale, and critical systems in the world. Its largest users run Kafka across thousands

We saw in the earlier articles (part 1, part 2) in this series how to use the Kafka Connect API to build out a very simple, but powerful and scalable, streaming

At The New York Times we have a number of different systems that are used for producing content. We have several Content Management Systems, and we use third-party data and

Another successful Kafka Summit is in the books! Around 800 Apache Kafka® committers, users, and enthusiasts joined us at the Hilton Union Square in San Francisco for a day of