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Omnichannel Retail and Customer 360 with Apache Kafka at the Edge and in the Cloud

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Omnichannel Retail and Customer 360 in Real Time with Apache Kafka

ByKai Waehner
8. February 2021

Event Streaming with Apache Kafka disrupts the retail industry. Walmart’s real-time inventory system and Target’s omnichannel distribution and logistics are two great examples. This blog post explores a key use case for postmodern retail companies: Real-time omnichannel retail and customer 360.

Smart Retail Store with Apache Kafka at the Edge

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A Hybrid Streaming Architecture for Smart Retail Stores with Apache Kafka

ByKai Waehner
1. February 2021

Event Streaming with Apache Kafka disrupts the retail industry. This blog post explores a concrete use case as part of the overall story: A hybrid streaming architecture to build smart retail stores for autonomous or disconnected edge computing and replication to the cloud with Apache Kafka.

Kafka-native Model Server for Machine Learning and Model Deployment

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Streaming Machine Learning with Kafka-native Model Deployment

ByKai Waehner
27. October 2020

Apache Kafka became the de facto standard for event streaming across the globe and industries. Machine Learning (ML)…

Kafka at the Edge - Use Cases and Architectures

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Use Cases and Architectures for Kafka at the Edge

ByKai Waehner
14. October 2020

Use cases and architectures for Kafka deployments at the edge, including retail stores, cell towers, trains, small factories, restaurants… Hardware and software components to realize edge and hybrid Kafka infrastructures.

Apache Kafka for Manufacturing and Industry 4.0

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Apache Kafka in Manufacturing and Industry 4.0

ByKai Waehner
17. September 2020
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The Fourth Industrial Revolution (also known as Industry 4.0) is the ongoing automation of traditional manufacturing and industrial…

Apache Kafka at the Edge for IoT Use Cases

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Apache Kafka is the New Black at the Edge in Industrial IoT, Logistics and Retailing

ByKai Waehner
1. January 2020
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The following question comes up almost every week in conversations with customers: Can and should I deploy Apache…

Digital Twin with Apache Kafka - Simulating of car manufacturing by robots on Siemens

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Apache Kafka as Digital Twin for Open, Scalable, Reliable Industrial IoT (IIoT)

ByKai Waehner
28. November 2019
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This blog post discusses the benefits of a Digital Twin in Industrial IoT (IIoT) and its relation to…

ByKai Waehner
3. November 2016

Comparison of Open Source IoT Integration Frameworks such as Eclipse Kura (+ Apache Camel), Node-RED, Flogo, Apache Nifi, StreamSets, and others… (slide and video recording)

ByKai Waehner
3. November 2016

Introduction to the Open Source IoT Integration Project Flogo to build very lightweight edge applications and microservices for cloud native containers / cloud platforms / serverless architectures.

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A Hybrid Streaming Architecture for Smart Retail Stores with Apache Kafka

Apache Kafka is the New Black at the Edge in Industrial IoT, Logistics and Retailing

Apache Kafka as Digital Twin for Open, Scalable, Reliable Industrial IoT (IIoT)

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Apache Kafka vs. Middleware (MQ, ETL, ESB) – Slides + Video

Deep Learning Example: Apache Kafka + Python + Keras + TensorFlow + Deeplearning4j

How Apache Kafka and Flink Power Event-Driven Agentic AI in Real Time

The Top 20 Problems with Batch Processing (and How to Fix Them with Data Streaming)

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