When the big data movement started it was mostly focused on batch processing. Distributed data storage and querying tools like MapReduce, Hive, and Pig were all designed to process data in batches ...

Founded out of Helsinki in 2016, Aiven essentially solves many of the headaches involved in running open source software, which permeates just about every modern technology stack. From scripts that ...

The culprit is misconfigured Kafdrop interfaces, used for centralized management of the open-source platform. Some of the world’s largest companies have exposed reams of sensitive information from the ...

When Confluent launched a cloud service in 2017, it was trying to reduce some of the complexity related to running a Kafka streaming data application. Today, it introduced a free tier to that cloud ...

In the first half of this JavaWorld introduction to Apache Kafka, you developed a couple of small-scale producer/consumer applications using Kafka. From these exercises you should be familiar with the ...