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Examples of Kafka architecture solutions

Examples of Kafka architecture solutions The term ‘big data’ is no longer a buzzword, but a common reality of processing massive streams of data in modern businesses. Traditional approaches to making sense of immense data-driven events are no longer efficient, which lead to the birth of Apache Kafka in 2010. What Is Kafka The Apache…

Why should you Deploy Kafka Clusters on Kubernetes?

Why should you Deploy Kafka Clusters on Kubernetes Apache Kafka is a popular open-source tool for message streaming. It can be used to store and process huge amounts of data and can allow applications to utilise streams of data in real-time. Kafka is typically used together with Apache Zookeeper to create scalable and fault-tolerant clusters…

What Is Apache Software?

Kafka Software Spark, Hadoop, Python, Tensorflow – an increasing number of software, frameworks, and platforms are emerging to help businesses get control over their huge volumes of data, and this can be overwhelming. Kafka software rises, amid the others, as a specifically designed software for speedy, real-time data processing making AI and Big Data possible. …

What Is Data Governance And Why Does It Matter?

What Is Data Governance And Why Does It Matter? If there's something in business that you really want to do is being fast at processing data/orders. But sometimes this should not be the priority, because being fast is not necessarily a synonym of efficiency." Or something different but still more specific. In terms of SEO…

What are Data Governance Tools?

Data Governance Tools In any business-grade Kafka deployment and configuration, you must develop a solid governance framework to guarantee the security of private and confidential data as well as who is dealing with data and what types of operations are carried out on that data. Furthermore, governance framework determines who can access what kind of…

What is Apache Kafka?

What is Apache Kafka? Thousands of businesses are built on Kafka, and for good reasons. Kafka is a scalable, community distributed event streaming platform and publish-subscribe messaging system. Kafka is used to develop distributed applications and facilitate web-scale internet businesses like Twitter, LinkedIn etc. Being scalable, it is not only used by Internet unicorns, but…

Real-time Financial Alerts at Rabobank with Apache Kafka’s Streams API

Real-time Financial Alerts at Rabobank with Apache Kafka’s Streams API This article, written bij Axual founder Jeroen van Disseldorp, 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, and €681B in assets. It is a bank by…