In this section, we will examine the architectural components and related terminology in Kafka. Basically, Kafka consists of the following components: Kafka Cluster—a collection of one or more servers ...

Event-driven architectures are wonderful. But Kafka was never intended to be a database, and using it as a database won’t solve your problem. It’s a tale as old as time. An enterprise is struggling ...

The latest trends and issues around the use of open source software in the enterprise. This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Open Source Inside blog written by by Ben Slater in his role as ...