Kafka Listeners – Explained
This question comes up on Stack Overflow and such places a lot, so here’s something to try and help. tl;dr: You need to set advertised.listeners (or KAFKA_ADVERTISED_LISTENERS if you’re using […]
From Apache Kafka to Amazon S3: Exactly Once
At Confluent, we see many of our customers are on AWS, and we’ve noticed that Amazon S3 plays a particularly significant role in AWS-based architectures. Unless a use case actively […]
Real-Time Presence Detection at Scale with Apache Kafka on AWS
Zenreach provides a platform that leverages Wi-Fi and enables merchants to better understand and engage with their customers. Most of our product features depend on one basic building block: real-time […]
KSQL in Action: Enriching CSV Events with Data from RDBMS into AWS
Life would be simple if data lived in one place: one single solitary database to rule them all. Anything that needed to be joined to anything could be with a […]
Want to migrate to AWS Cloud? Use Apache Kafka.
Amazon’s AWS cloud is doing really well. Doing well to the tune of making $2.57 Billion in Q1 2016. That’s 64% up from Q1 last year. Clearly a lot of […]
Design and Deployment Considerations for Deploying Apache Kafka on AWS
Apache Kafka (the basis for the Confluent Platform) delivers an advanced platform for streaming data used by hundreds of companies, large and small. Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides a powerful […]
Deploying Apache Kafka on AWS Elastic Block Store (EBS)
Apache Kafka is designed to be highly performant, reliable, scalable, and fault tolerant. At the same time, the performance and reliability of a Kafka cluster is highly dependent on the […]