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Release blog 2025.1 - The Spring Release

Axual 2025.1 is here with exciting new features and updates. Whether you're strengthening security, improving observability, or bridging old legacy systems with modern event systems, like Kafka, Axual 2025.1 is built to keep you, your fellow developers, and engineers ahead of the game.

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Kafka Consumer Groups and Offsets: What You Need to Know

Consumer group offsets are essential components in Apache Kafka, a leading platform for handling real-time event streaming. By allowing organizations to scale efficiently, manage data consumption, and track progress in data processing, Kafka’s consumer groups and offsets ensure reliability and performance. In this blog post, we'll dive deep into these concepts, explain how consumer groups and offsets work, and answer key questions about their functionality. We'll also explore several practical use cases that show how Kafka’s consumer groups and offsets drive real business value, from real-time analytics to machine learning pipelines.

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Starting Small with Kafka: Why It’s the Right Choice for Your Enterprise

Apache Kafka is a powerful event-streaming platform, but does your enterprise need to go all in from day one? In this blog, we explore why starting small with Kafka is the best strategy. Learn how an incremental approach can help you reduce complexity, and scale efficiently as your needs grow. Whether you're new to Kafka or looking for a practical implementation strategy, this guide will set you on the right path.

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Jurre Robertus
July 3, 2023
Event driven ETL vs batch driven ETL
Event driven ETL vs batch driven ETL

In the world of data integration, ETL (extract, transform, load) processes play a foundational role. There are two main types of ETL: event driven ETL and batch driven ETL. While both have their advantages and disadvantages, the choice between them largely depends on the use case and specific requirements of your organization. In this article, we will explore the differences between event driven ETL and batch driven ETL, and their respective pros and cons.

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Richard Bosch
June 1, 2023
Axual at the Kafka Summit London 2023 – feedback from the Kafka community
Axual at the Kafka Summit London 2023 – feedback from the Kafka community

Axual was a sponsor of the Kafka Summit London 2023. It was a great conference and we got loads of feedback. Let's dive into it.

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Joey Compeer
April 20, 2023
Release blog 2023.1 – the spring release
Release blog 2023.1 – the spring release

We are well into spring again and the flowers start popping up around us. What a wonderful moment to bring another platform release to the public. We are happy to announce Axual Platform 2023.1.

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Joey Compeer
April 13, 2023
Axual launches Axual Governance to help organizations turn Kafka into a competitive advantage
Axual launches Axual Governance to help organizations turn Kafka into a competitive advantage

Axual Governance is now available - data governance & self-service for any Kafka.

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Richard Bosch
March 31, 2023
How are you managing Kafka? How the Axual ownership model makes your job easier
How are you managing Kafka? How the Axual ownership model makes your job easier

Apache Kafka has become the default solution when it comes to enabling event streaming. Operating an Apache Kafka deployment and managing connections and content can interrupt development processes and slow up time. In this blog we explain how the Axual approach to ownership helps to speed up the development of new topics and applications.

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Jurre Robertus
February 22, 2023
Why you should use Apache Kafka for industry 4.0
Why you should use Apache Kafka for industry 4.0

Apache Kafka is the leading open source event streaming platform. This platform enables organizations to use real-time data instead of batch data. This new way of using data has a lot of use cases. In this blog we explore how industry 4.0 can benefit from Apache Kafka®

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