Taking Kafka to the Next Level for APIs
(World News Science)

In a recent post, I talked about the merits and challenges of using Kibana and the ELK Stack for corporate `big data` management. I thought I would follow that up with a related commentary on Kafka. Kafka is an Open-source big data technology from the Apache stable. It provides real-time big data streaming for a variety of data processing purposes. Its part of the data pipeline for many big data projects. Kafka comes with built-in high availability and scalability features that make it particularly...