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Instaclustr’s Slater: Apache Kafka is fairly easy to get started with – but understanding its deeper nuances and capturing all that it has to offer can be a heck of a challenge.

Apache Kafka is a key component in data pipeline architectures when it comes to ingesting data. Confluent, the commercial entity behind Kafka, wants to leverage this position to become a platform ...

Thousands of organizations use Apache Kafka, including internet giants, car manufacturers, and stock exchanges, and has more than 5 million unique lifetime downloads.

Conduktor is an all-in-one graphical user interface that makes it easier to work with Apache Kafka via a desktop client.

Already valued at half a billion dollars, startup Confluent has launched a cloud service to help companies manage popular open-source data streaming service Kafka over AWS and its cloud rivals.

With its acquisition of Immerok, Confluent aims to expand data stream processing and further enable enterprise applications.