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Automotive and Manufacturing Landscape for Apache Kafka

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Apache Kafka Landscape for Automotive and Manufacturing

ByKai Waehner
12. January 2022
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Apache Kafka is the central nervous system of many applications in various areas related to the automotive and manufacturing industry for processing analytical and transactional data in motion across edge, hybrid, and multi-cloud deployments. This article explores the event streaming landscape for automotive including connected vehicles, smart manufacturing, supply chain optimization, aftersales, mobility services, and innovative new business models.

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Is Apache Kafka an iPaaS or is Event Streaming its own Software Category?

ByKai Waehner
3. November 2021
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This post explores why Apache Kafka is the new black for integration projects, how Kafka fits into the discussion around cloud-native iPaaS solutions, and why event streaming is a new software category. A concrete real-world example shows the difference between event streaming and traditional integration platforms respectively iPaaS.

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.

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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.

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
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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.