It consumes 1-minute micro-batches from Kafka and then writes the data to S3 as a Delta Lake table. Downstream Spark consumers can use Spark structured streaming to stream-consume the Delta Lake table ...

IBM's $11B Confluent acquisition completes its hybrid cloud stack, with Kafka streaming joining Red Hat and HashiCorp for ...

Imagine it’s 3 a.m. and your pager goes off. A downstream service is failing, and after an hour of debugging you trace the issue to a tiny, undocumented schema change made by an upstream team. The fix ...

In the previous article, we gained an understanding of the main Kafka components and how Kafka consumers work. Now, we’ll see how these contribute to the ability of Kafka to provide extreme ...

What if the very foundation of your organization’s data strategy was holding you back? For years, data lakes have promised flexibility and scalability, yet many businesses find themselves grappling ...

As businesses continue to focus on leveraging Big Data, IT teams can prevent raw data from being siloed by gathering it into a central repository. Jennifer Zaino is a New York-based freelance writer ...