What is Kafka?
An introduction to real-time data pipelines and streaming apps.

Here are the essentials for implementing Apache Kafka in your architecture.

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Why is Apache Kafka so popular?

Big Data

Big data tool used by over 12,000 companies around the world

Scalability

A fast, scalable, durable, and fault-tolerant publish-subscribe messaging system

Responsiveness

Used when JMS or RabbitMQ, may not be considered due to volume and responsiveness

Performance

Relies heavily on the OS kernel to move data around quickly and handle massive load

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Our Kafka Experts - Kafka consulting

Michał Matłoka

Software Architect

IT Dev (Scala), Consultant, Speaker and Trainer. Experienced in JVM and Big data. Involved in multiple open source projects, a co-author of Java EE 7 Development with WildFly book. Lightbend Certified Developer and Certified Architect on Apache Cassandra.

Confluent Certified Developer for Apache Kafka

Andrzej Ludwikowski

Software Architect

Software Journeyman with over 10 years of experience in commercial software development. Conference speaker, trainer and open source contributor. Devotee of DDD, Event Sourcing and Polyglot Persistence. Continuously chasing the dream of a perfect software architecture, fulfilling all of the requirements and trends, even the strangest ones.

Confluent Certified Developer for Apache Kafka

Jarosław Kijanowski

Software Architect

Java Developer experienced with stream processing engines as well as the Java EE / SpringBoot stack. Delivered projects using relational databases, no-sql, queues and queue-like systems (Apache Kafka, Oracle AQ, HornetQ), integration layers deployed to cloud providers with automated deployment management.

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Krzysztof Grajek

Software Architect

Software Developer with 10+ experience, apart from being Lightbend certified developer he is Oracle Certified Master Enterprise Architect, Certified Reactive Architect and Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect.

Confluent Certified Developer for Apache Kafka

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