The Apache Kafka phenomenon reached a new high today when Confluent announced a $50 million investment from the venture capital firm Sequoia. The investment signals renewed confidence that Kafka is ...

Data Point 5: Applications utilizing Kafka stretch far and wide. Similar to last year’s report, three-fourths (75 percent) of organizations have applications connected to their Kafka systems.

Kafka co-creators Jay Kreps and Neha Narkhede, who developed Kafka while working at LinkedIn, co-founded Confluent in 2014 to build an ecosystem around this new way of thinking about data. The pair ...

Kafka also has a strong affinity with big data technologies such as Hadoop, Spark, and Storm. Kafka seems ideal as a framework for handling the massive streams of data that are increasingly generated ...

To enable streaming data flow between existing data systems, this release adds Kafka Connect and better client support." Kafka Connect helps developers -- without writing any code -- move data between ...

To help expand its data stream processing capabilities, Confluent today announced its acquisition of privately held vendor Immerok, a leading contributor to the Apache Flink project.

Apache Kafka is open-source stream-processing software that aims to provide a unified, high-throughput, low-latency platform for handling real-time data feeds. It’s an extremely valuable tool ...