Apache Kafka’s Metamorphosis
Data pipelines and messaging are now the top two uses of Kafka, followed by microservices/event processing and stream processing.
Tag: Kafka
Kafka in the Real World
If you’ve never used Apache Kafka you would think it’s a magical Excelsior because it’s applied to many different situations. Even people with hands-on experience argue about how to classify it. Is it for pub-sub and messaging, and thus comparable to RabbitMQ? In Confluent’s recent survey of […]
Stream Me Up to Microservices
JVM developers are interested in data stream processing technologies, but that “interest” is red hot if they are deploying microservices. According to Lightbend’s recent survey of JVM developers, 18 percent use Kafka in production, 13 percent use Akka Streams, and 12 percent use Spark Streaming. […]