How to choose the number of topics/partitions in a Kafka cluster?
Note: The blog post Apache Kafka Supports 200K Partitions Per Cluster contains important updates that have happened in Kafka as of version 2.0. This is a common question asked by […]
Turning the database inside-out with Apache Samza
This is an edited and expanded transcript of a talk I gave at Strange Loop 2014. The video recording (embedded below) has been watched over 8,000 times. For those of […]
What’s coming in Apache Kafka 0.8.2
I am very excited to tell you about the forthcoming 0.8.2 release of Apache Kafka. Kafka is a fault-tolerant, low-latency, high-throughput distributed messaging system used in data pipelines at several […]