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On behalf of the Apache Kafka® community, it is my pleasure to announce the release of Apache Kafka 2.5.0. The community has created another exciting release. We are making progress

Many companies have recently started to take cybersecurity and data protection even more seriously, particularly driven by the recent General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) legislation. They are increasing their investment

Event stream processing solves many business challenges, from big data ingestion and data integration, to real-time data processing and IoT. It gives you the ability to analyze big data streams

The world is changing fast, and keeping up can be hard. Companies must evolve their IT to stay modern, providing services that are more and more sophisticated to their customers.

Now that we’ve learned about the processing layer of Apache Kafka® by looking at streams and tables, as well as the architecture of distributed processing with the Kafka Streams API

Part 2 of this series discussed in detail the storage layer of Apache Kafka: topics, partitions, and brokers, along with storage formats and event partitioning. Now that we have this

This four-part series explores the core fundamentals of Kafka’s storage and processing layers and how they interrelate. In this first part, we begin with an overview of events, streams, tables,

As a test class that allows you to test Kafka Streams logic, TopologyTestDriver is a lot faster than utilizing EmbeddedSingleNodeKafkaCluster and makes it possible to simulate different timing scenarios. Not

On behalf of the Apache Kafka® community, it is my pleasure to announce the release of Apache Kafka 2.4.0. This release includes a number of key new features and improvements

Every day, about 5.7 million rail passengers rely on Deutsche Bahn (DB) to get to their destination. Virtually every one of these passengers needs access to vital trip information, including