Machine Learning and Data Science with Apache Kafka in Healthcare
Read More

Machine Learning and Data Science with Kafka in Healthcare

IT modernization and innovative new technologies change the healthcare industry significantly. This blog series explores how data streaming with Apache Kafka enables real-time data processing and business process automation. Real-world examples show how traditional enterprises and startups increase efficiency, reduce cost, and improve the human experience across the healthcare value chain, including pharma, insurance, providers, retail, and manufacturing. This is part five: Machine Learning and Data Science. Examples include Recursion and Humana.
Read More
Disaster Recovery and Resiliency with Apache Kafka Data Streaming
Read More

Disaster Recovery with Kafka across the Edge and Hybrid Cloud (QCon Talk)

I spoke at QCon London in April 2022 about building disaster recovery and resilient real-time enterprise architectures with Apache Kafka. This blog post summarizes the use cases, architectures, and real-world examples. The slide deck and video recording of the presentation is included as well.
Read More
Real Time Analytics and Machine Learning with Apache Kafka in Healthcare
Read More

Real Time Analytics with Apache Kafka in the Healthcare Industry

IT modernization and innovative new technologies change the healthcare industry significantly. This blog series explores how data streaming with Apache Kafka enables real-time data processing and business process automation. This is part four: Real-Time Analytics. Examples include Cerner, Celmatix, CDC/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Read More
Streaming ETL with Apache Kafka in Healthcare
Read More

Streaming ETL with Apache Kafka in the Healthcare Industry

IT modernization and innovative new technologies change the healthcare industry significantly. This blog series explores how data streaming with Apache Kafka enables real-time data processing and business process automation. This is part three: Streaming ETL. Examples include Babylon Health and Bayer.
Read More
Legacy Modernization and Hybrid Multi Cloud with Apache Kafka in Healthcare
Read More

Legacy Modernization and Hybrid Multi-Cloud with Kafka in Healthcare

IT modernization and innovative new technologies change the healthcare industry significantly. This blog series explores how data streaming with Apache Kafka enables real-time data processing and business process automation. This is part two: Legacy modernization and hybrid multi-cloud. Examples include Optum / UnitedHealth Group, Centene, and Bayer.
Read More
Data Streaming with Apache Kafka in the Healthcare Industry
Read More

Apache Kafka in the Healthcare Industry

IT modernization and innovative new technologies change the healthcare industry significantly. This blog series explores real-world examples of data streaming with Apache Kafka to increase efficiency, reduce cost, and improve the human experience across the healthcare value chain including pharma, insurance, providers, retail, and manufacturing. This is part one: Overview.
Read More
Cloud Native Core Banking Platform powered by Apache Kafka Data Streaming
Read More

Cloud-native Core Banking Modernization with Apache Kafka

Most financial service institutions operate their core banking platform on legacy mainframe technologies. The monolithic, proprietary, inflexible architecture creates many challenges for innovation and cost-efficiency. This blog post explores three open, elastic, and scalable banking solutions powered by Apache Kafka to solve these problems.
Read More
Apache Kafka Transactions API vs Big Data Lake and Batch Analytics
Read More

Analytics vs. Transactions in Data Streaming with Apache Kafka

Workloads for analytics and transactions have very unlike characteristics and requirements. Many people think that Apache Kafka is not built for transactions and should only be used for big data analytics. This blog post explores when and how to use Kafka in resilient, mission-critical architectures and when to use the built-in Transaction API.
Read More
The Real-Time Food and Retail Supply Chain powered by Apache Kafka
Read More

Real-Time Supply Chain with Apache Kafka in the Food and Retail Industry

This blog post explores real-world deployments across the end-to-end supply chain powered by data streaming with Apache Kafka to improve business processes with real-time services. The examples include manufacturing, logistics, stores, delivery, restaurants, and other parts of the business. Case studies include Walmart, Albertsons, Instacart, Domino’s Pizza, Migros, and more.
Read More
The Trinity of Data Streaming in Industrial IoT - Apache Kafka MQTT OPC UA
Read More

OPC UA, MQTT, and Apache Kafka – The Trinity of Data Streaming in IoT

In the IoT world, MQTT and OPC UA have established themselves as open and platform-independent standards for data exchange in Industrial IoT and Industry 4.0 use cases. Data Streaming with Apache Kafka is the data hub for integrating and processing massive volumes of data at any scale in real-time. This blog post explores the relationship between Kafka and the IoT protocols, when to use which technology, and why sometimes HTTP/REST is the better choice. The end explores real-world case studies from Audi and BMW.
Read More