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06/04/2022

Aiming to centralize your organization’s Kafka usage?

Uniting a diverse range of business units around a centralized platform is key to maximizing the benefits your organization gains from Kafka, as well as ensuring you’re using and maintaining the platform as efficiently as possible.

However, shifting to a centralized Kafka poses complex challenges for your platform team:

🥵 Building a watertight governance mechanism
🥵 Configuring foolproof security from scratch
🥵 Providing a Kafka self-service environment for your DevOps teams
🥵 Supporting your full Kafka stack — a significant (and increasing) challenge as your Kafka scope widens

Our latest article dives into how enterprises can overcome these hurdles to mature and optimize their Kafka ecosystem.

As the volumes of data continue to widen, centralized Kafka ecosystems are increasingly attractive for enterprise organizations. Yet securely connecting users from across your organization is a hefty task, as is evolving your Kafka setup to address their varied priorities. Our latest article tracks....

19/10/2021

How Uber is leveraging Apache Kafka for more than 300 microservices!

Have you ever wondered about all the hardcore processing that goes on behind the scenes in your Uber app to get you to your destination with no interruptions? How do machines provide high speed and quality real-time processing? The answer is very simple: streaming platforms.

Apache Kafka’s real-time streaming data pipelines and applications are the backbone of Uber today. With massive deployments of Apache Kafka, Uber uses the service to process trillions of messages and multiple petabytes of data per day.

Learn more about the Uber use case in this blogpost: https://eng.uber.com/ureplicator-apache-kafka-replicator/

Source: Analytics India Magazine Uber

14/10/2021

Do you know what you have?

12/10/2021

Apache Kafka drives Rabobank Real-Time Financial Alerts!

For the past few years, and partly with data protection compliance in mind, Rabobank has actively invested in becoming a real-time, event-driven bank. Rabobank has taken up the challenge and defined the Business Event Bus (BEB) as where business events from across the organization are shared between applications. They chose Apache Kafka as their main engine.

Rabo Alerts is a system formed by microservices that produce, consume and/or stream messages from BEB. This service alerts Rabobank customers whenever certain financial events occur. Rabo Alerts has already been in production for more than ten years and is available to millions of account holders!

Learn more about the Rabobank use case in this blogpost: https://axual.com/real-time-financial-alerts-at-rabobank-with-apache-kafkas-streams-api/

07/10/2021

Apache Kafka: a fit for your organization?

Apache Kafka is an open-source distributed event streaming platform. Looking at different roles that exist in your company, there are possibly different needs and requirements. Now you might wonder what Apache Kafka is made for. We created a small diagram to show the top use cases of Apache Kafka. Want to find out if Apache Kafka is a fit with your company?

Start a free trial and get your own dedicated Kafka environment in minutes: https://axual.com/trial/

05/10/2021

In our perspective he has a point. Do you agree with this quote of Mark Twain? Leave a comment!

30/09/2021

If Kafka is your engine, Axual is your racing car!

Enterprises that want to start streaming with Kafka often find it difficult to get going. Main reason: Kafka is not easy to understand. Kafka is a terrific engine, but for most organisations the engine itself is too complex to use directly.

In this whitepaper we share some of our insights that might help you grasp some of the challenges you and your business are facing: https://axual.com/documents/whitepaper-kafka-axual-streaming-platform/

28/09/2021

Prepare to be welcomed anywhere! How well did you master data already?

24/09/2021

Sustainable use of energy? Real-time data is the answer!

With real-time data, our customers have a much better and real-time view on energy demand and energy production, which helps them save energy and reduce costs. Because real-time data plays an increasingly important role in the energy transition, Eneco decided in 2019 to set up an Event Streaming Platform.

Curious about the results of this decision? Read the use case of Eneco: https://axual.com/documents/whitepaper-energy/

07/09/2021

Axual release 2021.2!

Did you already check out the 2021.2 release of our platform? This time with stability and security improvements and lots of smaller bug fixes. We also announced the 1.0.0 release of our Python client and an Azure Data Lake Gen2 Sink Connector. Want to know more about our second update? In this blog we tell you everything you need to know about our 2021.2 release: https://axual.com/axual-release-update-2021-2/

02/09/2021

Technology trends of the future you should know about!

Goodbye, big data, and hello real-time data streams! Real-time data streaming is the way to go forward. While software developers are excited about new technologies to deliver information, real-time data streaming’s implication goes beyond their workstations. In fact, it is already innovating technologies, and chances are, we’ve already experienced the changes.

Want to know more about your future with real-time data streaming? Read our blogpost: https://axual.com/technology-trends-of-the-future-real-time-data-streaming-is-the-way-to-go/