Also read: Kafka gets SQL with KSQL While KSQL isn't part of Apache Kafka per se, it is available from Confluent on a community-licensed basis for use with open-source Kafka implementations.

The Apache Software Foundation has released Apache Kafka 3.3.1 with many new features and improvements. In particular, this is the first release that marks KRaft (Kafka Raft) consensus protocol as pro ...

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 ...

Originally developed at LinkedIn, Apache Kafka is one of the most mature platforms for event streaming. Kafka is used for high-performance data pipelines, streaming analytics, data integration ...

To really understand Apache Kafka —and get the most out of this open source distributed event streaming platform —it’s crucial to gain a thorough understanding of Kafka consumer groups.

Kafka wasn’t the first open source project I was involved in at LinkedIn. We’d also built a key-value store, a workflow system, and a number of other things.

Confluent released KSQL: interactive, distributed streaming SQL engine for Apache Kafka. KSQL supports stream processing operations like aggregations, joins, windowing, and sessionization on ...

In late 2014, two creators of Kafka at LinkedIn, Jay Kreps and Neha Narkhede, founded the company Confluent to continue building Kafka and a surrounding ecosystem. In the 11 months immediately ...

The company says that Kafka is being used by seven of the top 10 global banks, eight of the top 10 insurance companies, nine of the top 10 U.S. telecom companies and six of the top 10 travel companies ...