Confluent says cluster linking is a form of geo-replication technology on Confluent Platform 7.0 (which is based on Apache Kafka 3.0) designed to create “perfect copies” of Kafka topics and then keep ...

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 ...

HDFS uses a random-access pattern, which can lead to disk I/O being a bottleneck. Kafka avoids this issue by using sequential access. “Apache Kafka is a distributed messaging system for log processing ...

Reading Kafka could make you smarter Exposure to surrealism -- works that feature the element of surprise -- like Franz Kafka's "The Country Doctor," may make you smarter, U.S. researchers say.