Kafka is an open-source tool for handling incoming streams of data. Like virtually all powerful tools, it’s somewhat hard to set up and manage. Today, Amazon’s AWS is making this all a bit ...

Lambda now natively supports Apache Avro and Protobuf events, streamlining Kafka event processing - an enhancement that eliminates the need for custom deserialization, automates schema validation and ...

AWS Announces General Availability of Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) Amazon MSK provides a fully managed, highly available, secure, and compatible service for Apache Kafka ...

“AWS entering the space is a win for Apache Kafka and represents the emerging consensus that Kafka is the de facto standard foundation for a company’s streaming platform,” he said in an email.

AWS IoT Things Graph is available in the US East (Northern Virginia), US West (Oregon), Europe (Ireland), Asia Pacific (Sydney), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo) regions, with pricing based on the number ...

Kafka itself is now used by seven of the world’s 10 largest banks and eight of the top 10 insurance companies. Confluent has been growing rapidly, with 700% percent bookings growth for 2016, its ...