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Why Tiered Storage for Apache Kafka is a BIG THING…

Apache Kafka added Tiered Storage to separate compute and storage. The capability enables more scalable, reliable and cost-efficient enterprise architectures. This blog post explores the architecture, use cases, benefits, and a case study for storing Petabytes of data in the Kafka commit log. The end discusses why Tiered Storage does NOT replace other databases and how Apache Iceberg might change future Kafka architectures even more.
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Top 5 Trends for Data Streaming with Kafka and Flink in 2024

Do you wonder about my predicted TOP 5 data streaming trends with Apache Kafka and Flink in 2024 to set data in motion? Discover new technology trends and best practices for event-driven architectures, including data sharing, data contracts, serverless stream processing, multi-cloud architectures, and GenAI.
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Dish Wireless Cloud-native 5G Telco Network powered by Data Streaming with Apache Kafka
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How Apache Kafka helps Dish Wireless building cloud-native 5G Telco Infrastructure

5G telco infrastructure provides the basic foundations of data movement and increasingly unlocks new capabilities for low latency and critical SLAs. Real-time data processing with data streaming using Apache Kafka enables innovation across industries. This blog post explores the success story of Dish Wireless and its cloud-native standalone 5G infrastructure leveraging data streaming.
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How Michelin improves Aftermarket Sales and Customer Service with Data Streaming

Aftermarket sales and customer service require the right information at the right time to make context-specific decisions. This post explains the modernization of supply chain business process choreography based on the real-life use case of Michelin, a tire manufacturer in France. Data Streaming with Apache Kafka enables true decoupling, domain-driven design, and data consistency across real-time and batch systems. Common business goals drove them: Increase customer retention, increase revenue, reduce costs, and improve time to market for innovation.
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The State of Data Streaming for Insurance in 2023
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The State of Data Streaming for Insurance

This blog post explores the state of data streaming for the insurance industry in 2023. The evolution of claim processing, customer service, telematics, and new business models requires real-time end-to-end visibility, reliable and intuitive B2B and B2C communication, and integration with pioneering technologies like AI/machine learning for image recognition. Learn from use cases of Allianz, Generali, Policygenius, and more. A complete slide deck and on-demand video recording are included.
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Real-Time Advertising Platform with Apache Kafka and Flink
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How to Build a Real-Time Advertising Platform with Apache Kafka and Flink

An advertising platform requires real-time capabilities to provide dynamic targeting, ad personalization, ad fraud detection, budget allocation, and event-driven marketing. This blog post explores how data streaming with Apache Kafka and Apache Flink enables context-specific advertising at any scale. Real-world success stories from Pinterest, Uber, Unity, buzzwil, and TV-Insight show different solutions and architectures for serving ads in marketing campaigns, embedded into mobile apps, and as SaaS software products.
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Modernization of OT IT and SCADA with Data Streaming
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Modernizing SCADA Systems and OT/IT Integration with Data Streaming

SCADA control systems are a vital component of IT/OT modernization. The old IT/OT infrastructure and SCADA system are monolithic, proprietary, not scalable, and miss open APIs based on standard interfaces. This post explains the modernization of such a system based on the real-life use case of 50Hertz, a transmission system operator for electricity in Germany. A lightboard video is included.
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The State of Data Streaming for Energy and Utilities in 2023
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The State of Data Streaming for Energy & Utilities

The evolution of utility infrastructure, energy distribution, customer services, and new business models requires real-time end-to-end visibility, reliable and intuitive B2B and B2C communication, and integration with pioneering technologies like 5G for low latency or augmented reality for innovation. I look at trends in the utilities sector to explore how data streaming helps as a business enabler, including customer stories from SunPower, 50hertz, Powerledger, and more. A complete slide deck and on-demand video recording are included.
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The State of Data Streaming for the Public Sector in 2023
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The State of Data Streaming for the Public Sector

This blog post explores the state of data streaming for the public sector and government. Data streaming provides consistency across all layers and allows integrating and correlating data in real-time at any scale. I look at public sector trends to explore how Apache Kafka helps as a business enabler, including case studies from the US Department of Defense (DoD), NASA, Deutsche Bahn (German Railway), and others. A complete slide deck and on-demand video recording are included.
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Data Streaming with Apache Kafka as Data Fabric for GenAI
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Apache Kafka as Mission Critical Data Fabric for GenAI

Apache Kafka serves thousands of enterprises as the mission-critical and scalable real-time data fabric for machine learning infrastructures. The evolution of Generative AI (GenAI) with large language models (LLM) like ChatGPT changed how people think about intelligent software and automation. This blog post explains the relation between data streaming and GenAI and shows the enormous opportunities and some early adopters of GenAI beyond the buzz.
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