As more and more organizations have come to rely on streaming data to provide real-time insights, a number of applications have sprung up to handle the myriad technical challenges that streaming data ...

Time and again, commercial Hadoop distributor MapR Technologies has demonstrated the value of the MapR-FS file system that underpins its Hadoop stack and differentiates it, more than any other feature ...

Data contracts are foundational to properly designed and well behaved data pipelines. Kafka and Flink provide the key ...

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Confluent, Inc.'s user markets for data streaming have a long runway ahead. Open source Apache Kafka is ubiquitously used for data streaming. Confluent's wheelhouse is scalable data streaming and ...

Hundreds of thousands of Grok chatbot chats, including sensitive data, were exposed on Google after xAI’s share feature leaked them. AI is rapidly moving beyond creating static videos to generating ...

The Apache Kafka phenomenon reached a new high today when Confluent announced a $50 million investment from the venture capital firm Sequoia. The investment signals renewed confidence that Kafka is ...

Wouldn't it be great if working with streaming data were just as simple as working with data at rest? And imagine if the two could be modeled, processed and coded against similarly; that would let ...

The open source Kafka real-time stream data service was incubated at LinkedIn over five years ago. Since then, Kafka has become an Apache open-source project and the original developers left LinkedIn ...

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 cloud ...