Streaming data platform Kafka uses a “publish-and-subscribe” model that links data sources to data receivers to enable constant and distributed monitoring.

Data startup Confluent has Silicon Valley buzzing about its Apache Kafka software. Here's 3 reasons why its cofounders were able to successfully incubate their idea while at LinkedIn.

Aiven has announced its first acquisition -- the company has snapped up open source data governance tool Kafkawize and rebranded it as Klaw.

What are the most important things you learned from building Apache Kafka? This question was originally answered on Quora by Jay Kreps.

Confluent, meanwhile, offers advanced management software by subscription to help large companies run Kafka for production systems.

Apache Kafka, the open source distributed messaging system, has steadily carved a foothold as the de facto real-time standard for brokering messages in scale out environments. Confluent, the ...

Superficially, Kafka provides services similar to JMS or AMQP products. However, Kafka is more specifically oriented toward scenarios that typify big data systems and are ubiquitous in modern services ...

Confluent, meanwhile, offers advanced management software by subscription to help large companies run Kafka for production systems.

Microsoft Corp. has just made it a little easier to build Internet of Things applications that rely on the popular open-source Apache Kafka streaming data ingestion engine. The company has just ...

Confluent’s new partner program helps partners migrate customers off the open-source Kafka software and onto the Confluent data streaming platform.