kafka

Avoid Kafka if unsure (think twice series)

December 2, 2019 / English Content, IT Featured, Knowledgebase, Structured Query Language (SQL) / , ,

Some co-workers started using Apache Kafka con a bunch of our Customers. Apache Kafka is a community distributed event streaming platform capable of handling trillions of events a day. Initially conceived as a messaging queue, Kafka is based on an abstraction of a distributed commit log[*]. To get this goal, Apache Kafka needs a complex …

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?FileSystem is faster than RAM [under your Operating System]

January 19, 2019 / English Content, IT Featured / , , ,

I am studying Apache Kafka (a “distributed streaming platform”) and I stubled upon this conclusion: the “disk read fear” a lot of projects have in the past, is a fake. A lot of distributed database started tutorial with the statement “disk read are slow, write are fast” which is true to some extent, and accounted …

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