Data startup Confluent has Silicon Valley buzzing about its Apache Kafka software. Here's 3 reasons why its cofounders were able to successfully incubate their idea while at LinkedIn.

The Kafka event-streaming process uses software “connectors,” linking Kafka event-streams to enterprise data stores and software products. Addressing the Need for Constant Monitoring.

Kafka has rapidly become the messaging system of choice for companies building large systems based on modern open source software stacks. As well as continuing use within parent LinkedIn, it is used ...

Confluent is looking to its systems integrator and cloud platform partners to help win over the more than 100,000 organizations using open-source Kafka software and migrate them to the company’s ...

This new service is based on Apache Kafka, an open source software project for handling large amounts of streaming data. AWS took Kafka and repackaged it as a paid cloud service — something ...

The founders of Confluent were the original developers of Kafka, which means they have first-hand knowledge of what this add-on Kafka software can do for Apache.

Apache Kafka is the most widely used data streaming software, with more than 75% of the Fortune 500 adopting it. Data streaming is not new, but adoption in the past was hampered by legacy products ...