Confluent explained the new service will allow customers to scale usage of their server-less infrastructure, up and down, between zero to 100 MB/s (that's megabytes, not megabits), with billing based ...

There's little doubt that Apache Kafka has become a de facto standard in the world of streaming data processing. But the fact that it's a standard, and that the core technology is open source, makes ...

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Learn to build a Splunk and Kafka platform that can provide the performance and resource utilization your organization needs to meet the demands of today’s data-intensive workloads. Intel® Select ...

Big-data company Confluent Inc. is introducing a free tier to its cloud-based Apache Kafka offering, giving enterprises an easy way to get started with the popular open source data streaming platform.

The culprit is misconfigured Kafdrop interfaces, used for centralized management of the open-source platform. Some of the world’s largest companies have exposed reams of sensitive information from the ...

When Confluent launched a cloud service in 2017, it was trying to reduce some of the complexity related to running a Kafka streaming data application. Today, it introduced a free tier to that cloud ...

We find ourselves in a time when certain businesses are being asked to scale to levels they never imagined. Sometimes that increased usage comes in bursts, which means you don’t want to pay for ...

High-flying startup Confluent is bringing its open-source technology Apache Kafka to the cloud. In the years since its founders devised Kafka while at LinkedIn in 2010, the data streaming software has ...