Using Kafka-Leader-Election to Improve Scalability and Performance
How does leader election work in Apache Kafka®? For the past 2 ½ years, Adithya Chandra, Staff Software Engineer at Confluent, has been working on Kafka scalability and performance, specifically parti...
12 Jan 202351min
Real-Time Machine Learning and Smarter AI with Data Streaming
Are bad customer experiences really just data integration problems? Can real-time data streaming and machine learning be democratized in order to deliver a better customer experience? Airy, an open-so...
5 Jan 202338min
The Present and Future of Stream Processing
The past year saw new trends emerge in the world of data streaming technologies, as well as some unexpected and novel use cases for Apache Kafka®. New reflections on the future of stream processing an...
28 Dec 202231min
Top 6 Worst Apache Kafka JIRA Bugs
Entomophiliac, Anna McDonald (Principal Customer Success Technical Architect, Confluent) has seen her fair share of Apache Kafka® bugs. For her annual holiday roundup of the most noteworthy Kafka bugs...
21 Dec 20221h 10min
Learn How Stream-Processing Works The Simplest Way Possible
Could you explain Apache Kafka® in ways that a small child could understand? When Mitch Seymour, author of Mastering Kafka Streams and ksqlDB, wanted a way to communicate the basics of Kafka and event...
20 Dec 202231min
Building and Designing Events and Event Streams with Apache Kafka
What are the key factors to consider when developing event-driven architecture? When properly designed, events can connect existing systems with a common language and allow data exchange in near real ...
15 Dec 202253min
Rethinking Apache Kafka Security and Account Management
Is there a better way to manage access to resources without compromising security? New employees need access to a variety of resources within a company's tech stack. But manually granting access can b...
8 Dec 202241min
Real-time Threat Detection Using Machine Learning and Apache Kafka
Can we use machine learning to detect security threats in real-time? As organizations increasingly rely on distributed systems, it is becoming more important to analyze the traffic that passes through...
29 Nov 202229min
