Today on the InfoQ Podcast, Wes Reisz speaks withColin McCabe about Apache Kafka’s KRaft mode. KRaft mode is the new operating mode of Apache Kafka released with 3.3.1 and is the new target ...

Apache Kafka is a key component in data pipeline architectures when it comes to ingesting data. Confluent, the commercial entity behind Kafka, wants to leverage this position to become a platform ...

Apache Kafka architecture In this section, we will examine the architectural components and related terminology in Kafka. Basically, Kafka consists of the following components: ...

At the heart of an effective stream-based architecture is the right message-passing technology. An emerging class of message-passing software, including Apache Kafka and MapR Streams, supports ...

Instaclustr’s Slater: Apache Kafka is fairly easy to get started with – but understanding its deeper nuances and capturing all that it has to offer can be a heck of a challenge.

Apache Kafka Developed by LinkedIn and released as open source back in 2011, Apache Kafka has spread far and wide, pretty much becoming the default choice for many when thinking about adding a ...

Using Kafka to distributed environment allows overcoming of the memory capacity that cannot be accommodated by one node. In particular, since image data can be stored in the file system, it is ...