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Celia Kung on LinkedIn's Brooklin Data Streaming Service
Celia Kung from LinkedIn's team spoke at the QCon New York 2019 Conference last week about Brooklin data streaming service that supports pluggable sources and destinations. These can be data stores or messaging systems making the solution flexible and extensible. Brooklin is part of the streams infrastructure platform developed at LinkedIn.
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Amazon Managed Kafka Aims to Simplify Kafka Streaming Setup and Use
Introduced as a public preview at AWS re:invent 2018, Amazon Managed Streaming for Kafka (MSK) is now generally available. Amazon MSK aims to make it easy to build and run streaming applications based on Kafka.
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Expo: Real Time A/B Testing and Monitoring with Spark Streaming and Kafka at Walmart Labs
The WalmartLabs engineering team developed a real time A/B testing tool called Expo that collects and analyzes user engagement metrics. It uses Spark Structured Streaming to process the incoming data and stores the metrics in KairosDB.
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Allegro Launches Hermes 1.0, a REST-based Message Broker Built on Top of Kafka
Allegro has launched version 1.0 of Hermes, a rest API based message broker built on top of Apache Kafka. Whilst not containing any new features, this first major version release is given to the current stable codebase.
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QCon NY (Jun 24-28): New Talks, a Focus on the Skills That Matter & Why You Should Join Us This Year
In the recent Stack Overflow 9th annual survey of over 90,000 software developers, we learned that non-development work remains a productivity challenge for software managers and leaders. At QCon New York, the conference for senior software developers, we have many sessions to help you learn how others have overcome those challenges.
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HiveMQ Goes Open Source, Brings MQTT and Kafka Together
Recently announced by HiveMQ, HiveMQ Enterprise Extension for Kafka aims to integrate Kafka and MQTT to enable real-time streaming for IoT applications.
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License Changes for Confluent Platform Restricting Cloud Vendor Usage
Confluent has announced changes to the license for some components of their Confluent Platform, a streaming platform which provides capabilities to transport data, and tools to connect systems and data sources. The license changes specifically focus on restricting the usage of these components by SaaS providers.
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Scaling Apache Kafka at Pinterest
Apache Kafka is used at Pinterest for transporting data for real time streaming applications, logging and visibility metrics for monitoring. Hosted on AWS, Pinterest’s Kafka installation uses the MirrorMaker and DoctorKafka tools for replication and high availability.
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Amazon Announces Managed Streaming for Kafka in Public Preview
At the recent AWS re:Invent 2018 event, Amazon announced a new fully managed service that makes it easy for customers to build and run applications that use Apache Kafka to process streaming data. This new service is called Amazon Managed Streaming for Kafka, Amazon MSK for short, and is now in public preview.
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Microsoft Announces the General Availability of Azure Event Hubs for Apache Kafka
Recently, Microsoft announced the general availability of Azure Event Hubs for Apache Kafka. Customers will get the best of both worlds—the ecosystem and tools of Kafka, along with Azure’s security and global scale.
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Q&A with Microsoft's Arindam Chatterjee Discussing Azure HDInsight 4.0
InfoQ caught up with Arindam Chatterjee, principal group manager at Microsoft, regarding the announcements about HDInsight at Microsoft Ignite.
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Confluent Platform 5.0 Supports LDAP Authorization and MQTT Proxy for IoT Integration
Confluent Platform 5.0, the enterprise streaming platform built on Apache Kafka, supports LDAP authorization, Kafka topic inspection, and Confluent MQTT Proxy for Internet of Things (IoT) integration.
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eBay Replatforming to Kubernetes, Envoy and Kafka: Intending to Open Source Hardware and Software
eBay has discussed how they are conducting a replatforming initiative across their entire technology stack, including building and releasing as open source both the hardware and software. Open source is fueling the software transformation of eBay’s infrastructure with cloud native technologies like Kubernetes, Envoy, MongoDB, Docker and Apache Kafka.
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NATS Messaging System Gets Kafka-Like Log API via Liftbridge
Joining the hot event-driven technology space is Liftbridge, an open-source project that extends the NATS messaging system with a scalable, Kafka-like log API. InfoQ spoke to creator Tyler Treat to learn more about the project, and the changing nature of data integration.
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Scaling Push Messaging for Millions of Devices @Netflix - Susheel Aroskar at QCon NY
Susheel Aroskar from Netflix's Engineering team spoke at the recent QCon New York 2018 Conference about Zuul Push, a scalable push notification service that asynchronously pushes data like personalized movie recommendations from cloud to devices.