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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
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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.

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Infrastructure Checklist for Apache Kafka at the Edge

ByKai Waehner
3. February 2021
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This blog post explores an infrastructure checklist to build an open, flexible, and scalable event streaming architecture with Apache Kafka at the edge outside data centers.

Disrupting the Retail Industry with Event Streaming and Apache Kafka

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Use Cases for Apache Kafka in Retail

ByKai Waehner
28. January 2021
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This blog post explores use cases, architectures, and real-world deployments of Apache Kafka in edge, hybrid, and global retail deployments at companies such as Walmart and Target.

Innovation in Financial Services and Open Banking with Apache Kafka

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Apache Kafka in the Financial Services Industry

ByKai Waehner
18. January 2021
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The rise of event streaming in financial services is growing like crazy. Continuous real-time data integration and processing are mandatory for many use cases. Apache Kafka is deployed across the financial services business departments for mission-critical transactional workloads and big data analytics. High scalability, high reliability, and an elastic open infrastructure are the key reasons for the success of Kafka. This blog post explores different use cases, architectures, and real-world examples in the FinServ sector.

Smart Grid Energy Production and Distribution with Apache Kafka

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Apache Kafka for Smart Grid, Utilities and Energy Production

ByKai Waehner
14. January 2021
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The energy industry is changing from system-centric to smaller-scale and distributed smart grids and microgrids. These smart grids require a flexible, scalable, elastic, and reliable cloud-native infrastructure for real-time data integration and processing. This post explores use cases, architectures, and real-world deployments of event streaming with Apache Kafka in the energy industry to implement smart grids and real-time end-to-end integration.

Apache Kafka Hard vs Soft Real Time for Industrial IoT Robots and Connected Vehicles

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Apache Kafka is NOT Hard Real Time BUT Used Everywhere in Automotive and Industrial IoT

ByKai Waehner
4. January 2021
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Apache Kafka is NOT hard real-time in Industrial IoT or vehicles (such as autonomous cars) but integrates the OT/IT world for near real-time data correlation and analytics in hybrid architectures across factories at the edge, multiple clouds, and over countries.

Apache Kafka and Event Streaming Top Use Cases for 2021

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Top 5 Event Streaming Use Cases for 2021 with Apache Kafka

ByKai Waehner
16. December 2020
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TOP 5 Event Streaming Architectures and Use Cases for 2021: Edge deployments, hybrid and multi-cloud architectures, service mesh-based microservices, streaming machine learning, and cybersecurity.

Supply Chain Optimization with Apache Kafka and SCM

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Apache Kafka for Supply Chain Management (SCM) Optimization

ByKai Waehner
15. December 2020
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Supply Chain optimization leveraging Event Streaming with Apache Kafka. See real-world use cases and architectures from Walmart, BMW, Porsche, and other enterprises to improve the Supply Chain Management (SCM) processes. Automation, robustness, flexibility, real-time, decoupling, data integration, and hybrid deployments…

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Building a Postmodern ERP with Apache Kafka

ByKai Waehner
20. November 2020
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Postmodern ERP represents the next generation of ERP architectures. It is real-time, scalable, and open by using a combination of open source technologies and proprietary standard software. This blog post explores why and how companies, both software vendors and end-users, leverage event streaming with Apache Kafka to implement a Postmodern ERP.