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It might seem a little strange, being the holiday season and still technically 2018, for me to be talking 2019 Kafka Summit events. But as you may already know, the

The principle of least privilege dictates that each user and application will have the minimal privileges required to do their job. When applied to Apache Kafka® and its Streams API,

Imagine: Disaster strikes—catastrophic hardware failure, software failure, power outage, denial of service attack or some other event causes one datacenter with an Apache Kafka® cluster to completely fail. Yet Kafka

Only a few years ago, when someone said they had a “cloud-first strategy,” you knew exactly who their new preferred vendor was. These days, however, the story is a lot

Machine learning and the Apache Kafka® ecosystem are a great combination for training and deploying analytic models at scale. I had previously discussed potential use cases and architectures for machine

Kafka Connect is part of Apache Kafka®, providing streaming integration between data stores and Kafka. For data engineers, it just requires JSON configuration files to use. There are connectors for

In Kafka, a topic can have multiple partitions to which records are distributed. Partitions are the unit of parallelism. In general, more partitions leads to higher throughput. However, there are

Choosing the right messaging system during your architectural planning is always a challenge, yet one of the most important considerations to nail. As a developer, I write applications daily that

Fraud detection is a topic applicable to many industries, including banking and financial sectors, insurance, government agencies and law enforcement and more. Fraud attempts have seen a drastic increase in

Were you there last week? For as big as that event felt, it’s hard to believe it’s only the third annual Kafka Summit San Francisco. But the view was beautiful