As the Internet of Things (IoT) heats up as a topic, and as big data continues along on its path to maturity, streaming data technology, which fits perfectly in the intersection of the two, is having ...

Developing data pipelines in Apache Kafka just got easier thanks to the launch of Stream Designer, a graphical design tool that is now available on Confluent Cloud. Confluent also used this week’s ...

Hadoop and big data platforms were originally known for scale, not speed. But the arrival of high performance compute engines like Spark and streaming engines have cleared the way for bringing batch ...

What’s behind the rapid rise in Apache Kafka? According to a new survey of Kafka users by Confluent, the commercial venture behind Kafka, the data pipeline’s capability to “massively simplify” the IT ...

I spoke briefly about the evolution of modern data apps in a previous Forbes piece on the use of big data in the cloud. Essentially, the history of big data can be divided into thread broad ...

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

Analytics is often described as one of the biggest challenges associated with big data, but even before that step can happen, data has to be ingested and made available to enterprise users. That’s ...

Vectorized Inc., a new data management startup, today disclosed that it has raised $15.5 million across two funding rounds from Lightspeed Venture Partners and Alphabet Inc.’s GV fund. The startup’s ...