In a briefing last week, Confluent Co-Founder and CTO, Neha Narkhede, explained to me how Confluent Platform is much more than the open source code and a support contract. Confluent Platform is ...

Apache Kafka is a fascinating product that solves a problem that almost nobody has. If the Internet is a series of tubes (RIP Ted Stevens), Apache Kafka is the pipe that connects high-volume ...

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 ...

Analytics is often described as one of the biggest challenges associated with big data, but even before that step can happen, data has to be ingested and made available to enterprise users. That’s ...

The latest trends and issues around the use of open source software in the enterprise. TIBCO extends its open source credentials this month with commercial support and services for Apache Kafka as ...

Analytics is often described as one of the biggest challenges associated with big data, but even before that step can happen, data has to be ingested and made available to enterprise users. That’s ...