Introducing Derivative Event Sourcing
First, what is event sourcing? Here’s an example. Consider your bank account: viewing it online, the first thing you notice is often the current balance. How many of us drill […]
Using Graph Processing for Kafka Streams Visualizations
We know that Apache Kafka® is great when you’re dealing with streams, allowing you to conveniently look at streams as tables. Stream processing engines like KSQL furthermore give you the […]
Announcing Tutorials for Apache Kafka
We’re excited to announce Tutorials for Apache Kafka®, a new area of our website for learning event streaming. Kafka Tutorials is a collection of common event streaming use cases, with […]
KSQL UDFs and UDAFs Made Easy
One of KSQL’s most powerful features is allowing users to build their own KSQL functions for processing real-time streams of data. These functions can be invoked on individual messages (user-defined […]
Building Shared State Microservices for Distributed Systems Using Kafka Streams
The Kafka Streams API boasts a number of capabilities that make it well suited for maintaining the global state of a distributed system. At Imperva, we took advantage of Kafka […]
Bust the Burglars – Machine Learning with TensorFlow and Apache Kafka
Have you ever realized that, according to the latest FBI report, more than 80% of all crimes are property crimes, such as burglaries? And that the FBI clearance figures indicate […]
KSQL Training for Hands-On Learning
I’ve been using KSQL from Confluent since its first developer preview in 2017. Reading, writing, and transforming data in Apache Kafka® using KSQL is an effective way to rapidly deliver […]
Deploying Kafka Streams and KSQL with Gradle – Part 3: KSQL User-Defined Functions and Kafka Streams
Building off part 1 where we discussed an event streaming architecture that we implemented for a customer using Apache Kafka, KSQL, and Kafka Streams, and part 2 where we discussed […]
KSQL in Football: FIFA Women’s World Cup Data Analysis
One of the football (as per European terminology) highlights of the summer is the FIFA Women’s World Cup. France, Brazil, and the USA are the favourites, and this year Italy […]
Reliable, Fast Access to On-Chain Data Insights
At TokenAnalyst, we are building the core infrastructure to integrate, clean, and analyze blockchain data. Data on a blockchain is also known as on-chain data. We offer both historical and […]