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

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 ...

When You Shouldn’t In general, Spark isn’t going to be the best choice for use cases involving real-time or low latency processing. (Apache Kafka or other technologies deliver superior end-to-end ...

Thousands of organizations use Apache Kafka, including internet giants, car manufacturers, and stock exchanges, and has more than 5 million unique lifetime downloads.

Data startup Confluent has Silicon Valley buzzing about its Apache Kafka software. Here's 3 reasons why its cofounders were able to successfully incubate their idea while at LinkedIn.

Confluent CEO Jay Kreps said the LinkedIn team built Kafka to treat all data across the enterprise, wherever it lived, as a real-time stream of data and to allow anything to tap into and react to it.

But perhaps most impressively, he was one of the co-creators of Apache Kafka, an open-source software now used by over 100,000 organizations globally, that helps companies efficiently handle real ...