Shiny new objects are easy to find in the big data space. So when the industry’s attention shifted towards processing streams of data in real time–as opposed to batch-style processing that was popular ...

The latest trends and issues around the use of open source software in the enterprise. When you need a (computing) cluster in an instant, who would you call? Perhaps this was the thought process ...

As a big Hadoop user, Pandora Media is no stranger to distributed processing technologies. But when the music streaming service decided to transition its ad tracking system from a batch-oriented ...

Confluent, the data streaming provider, is unveiling the Connect with Confluent technology partner program, built for enabling Confluent partners to bring fully managed Kafka data streams directly to ...

Streaming is hot. The demand for real-time data processing is rising, and streaming vendors are proliferating and competing. Apache Kafka is a key component in many data pipeline architectures, mostly ...