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The State of Data Streaming for Telco

ByKai Waehner
2. June 2023
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This blog post explores the state of data streaming for the telco industry. The evolution of telco infrastructure, customer services, and new business models requires real-time end-to-end visibility, fancy mobile apps, and integration with pioneering technologies like 5G for low latency or augmented reality for innovation. Learn about customer stories from Dish Network, British Telecom, Globe Telecom, Swisscom, and more. A complete slide deck and on-demand video recording are included.

Python Kafka Quix Streams and Flink for Open Source Stream Processing

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Quix Streams – Stream Processing with Kafka and Python

ByKai Waehner
28. May 2023
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Over 100,000 organizations use Apache Kafka for data streaming. However, there is a problem: The broad ecosystem lacks a mature client framework and managed cloud service for Python data engineers. Quix Streams is a new technology on the market trying to close this gap. This blog post discusses this Python library, its place in the Kafka ecosystem, and when to use it instead of Apache Flink or other Python- or SQL-based substitutes.

Business Process Automation and BPM Workflow Engine and Orchestration with Apache Kafka

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Apache Kafka as Workflow and Orchestration Engine

ByKai Waehner
8. May 2023
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Business process automation with a workflow engine or BPM suite has existed for decades. However, using the data streaming platform Apache Kafka as the backbone of a workflow engine provides better scalability, higher availability, and simplified architecture. This blog post explores case studies across industries to show how enterprises like Salesforce or Swisscom implement stateful workflow automation and orchestration with Kafka.

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The State of Data Streaming for Retail

ByKai Waehner
27. April 2023
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This blog post explores the state of data streaming for the retail industry with omnichannel customer experiences, hybrid shopping models, and hyper-personalized recommendations. Data streaming allows integrating and correlating data in real time at any scale. I explore customer stories from Walmart, Albertsons, Otto, AO.com, and more, including a slide deck and on-demand video recording.

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The State of Data Streaming for Financial Services

ByKai Waehner
4. April 2023
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This blog post explores the state of data streaming for financial services. The evolution of capital markets, retail banking and payments requires easy information sharing and open architecture. Data streaming allows integrating and correlating data in real-time at any scale. The foci are trending enterprise architectures for data streaming and customer stories. A complete slide deck and on-demand video recording are included.

JMS Message Broker vs Apache Kafka Data Streaming

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Message Broker and Apache Kafka: Trade-Offs, Integration, Migration

ByKai Waehner
2. March 2023
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A Message broker has very different characteristics and use cases than a data streaming platform like Apache Kafka. Data integration, processing, governance, and security must be reliable and scalable across the business process. This blog post explores the capabilities of message brokers, the relation to the JMS standard, trade-offs compared to data streaming with Apache Kafka, and typical integration and migration scenarios.

Global Supply Chain with IoT and Data Streaming

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Transforming the Global Supply Chain with Data Streaming and IoT

ByKai Waehner
6. February 2023
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The research company IoT Analytics found eight key technologies transforming the future of the global supply chain. This article explores how data streaming helps to innovate in this area. Real-world case studies from global players such as BMW, Bosch, and Walmart show the value of real-time data streaming to improve the supply chain by building use cases such as automated intralogistics, track and trace of vehicles, and proactive and context-specific decision-making with MES and ERP integration.

Apache Kafka and Apache Flink for Open Source and Cloud-native Data Streaming

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Apache Kafka (including Kafka Streams) + Apache Flink = Match Made in Heaven

ByKai Waehner
23. January 2023
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Apache Kafka and Apache Flink are increasingly joining forces to build innovative real-time stream processing applications. This blog post explores the benefits of combining both open-source frameworks, shows unique differentiators of Flink versus Kafka, and discusses when to use a Kafka-native streaming engine like Kafka Streams instead of Flink.

Data Streaming Landscape 2023 with Apache Kafka Flink and much more

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The Data Streaming Landscape 2023

ByKai Waehner
21. December 2022
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Data streaming is a new software category to process data in motion. Apache Kafka is the de facto standard used by over 100,000 organizations. Plenty of vendors offer Kafka platforms and cloud services. Many complementary stream processing engines like Apache Flink and SaaS offerings have emerged. And competitive technologies like Pulsar and Redpanda try to get market share. This blog post explores the data streaming landscape of 2023 to summarize existing solutions and market trends.