At the risk of oversimplifying things, Kafka Streams makes streaming data look like a conventional table, of keys and value pairs (the data structure is called a KTable). The genius is that ...

Apache Kafka, Apache Flink ... strong in recent months as more developers and organizations use this open data format to manage large analytical data sets—especially those stored in data ...

When Confluent launched a cloud service in 2017, it was trying to reduce some of the complexity related to running a Kafka streaming data application. Today, it introduced a free tier to that ...

These new capabilities enable organizations to integrate data protection methods, like tokenization or format-preserving encryption, into their Kafka environments. Anonymization and ...