Introduction Apache Kafka has remained the backbone of event-driven architectures for over a decade. Its immutable log abstraction, scalable broker design, and stream-first philosophy have powered countless real-time systems—from fraud…
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The Hidden Business Costs of Managing Open-Source Kafka at Scale.
Introduction Apache Kafka is the backbone of modern real-time data architectures. It powers everything from user activity tracking to IoT telemetry, fraud detection, and microservices communication. As an open-source distributed…
Streaming ETL with Condense: A Faster, Smarter Alternative to Batch Processing
Introduction From Batch ETL to Real-Time Streaming — and Why Kafka Changed Everything For decades, enterprises relied on batch-oriented ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) processes to move and prepare data for…