If you want to analyze Mastodon posts, getting them into Apache Kafka® is a sensible first step. Read on to find out how to do this with Typescript and NodeJS. — Mastodon has been rising in popularity over recent months. If you’re not yet familiar with this exotic online creature, Mastodon is an open-source social networking software for microblogging. Instead of being a single network, like Twitter, Mastodon is a federated platform that connects independent interconnected servers. This makes it a…

Learn how to produce and consume records with Apache Kafka Java client library — It’s difficult to imagine the development of mission-critical software without relying on an event streaming platform such as Apache Kafka®. But perhaps you’re new to Apache Kafka and want to go deeper. You’re in the right place! This article will guide your first steps using Apache Kafka with Java. If…

Learn how to perform analytics with fast response time over huge volumes of data without the need to downsample data. — From a data stream to the data warehouse Apache Kafka® and ClickHouse® are quite different, but also have a lot in common. They are both open source, highly scalable, work best with immutable data and allow us to process big loads of data, but they do all of this in quite different ways. …

Big data can help you reach complex business decisions. Find out how ClickHouse is designed to get to the bottom of big data processes. — Speed is the key to success of our products, applications, solutions. Instead of guessing your next step, data can navigate your path faster to complex business decisions. Today we want to introduce you to a solution designed to get to the bottom of storing and analyzing big data: ClickHouse.

When it comes to making a performant Apache Kafka® cluster, partitioning is crucial. Read this article to learn which tools you can use to partition your data. — Apache Kafka® is a distributed system. At its heart is a set of brokers that stores records persistently inside topics. Topics, in turn, are split into partitions. Dividing topics into such pieces allows storing and reading data in parallel. …

Apache Kafka is a de facto standard for data streaming. There is a lot of interest and usage of Apache Kafka, but the learning curve can be steep. So here is my attempt to explain it using simple and friendly vocabulary: Apache Kafka® simply explained Apache Kafka® is widely used in the industry, but the learning curve can be steep and understanding the building blocks…aiven.io The article covers the following topics:

CI/CD stands for Continuous Integration, Delivery and Deployment. But if you still wonder what advantages CI/CD brings and why it is difficult to imagine modern software development without it, then this article is for you! We’ll use an example of an imaginary web application and see how adding CI/CD pipeline…

Did you ever run into a scenario where you wanted to transform objects retrieved from Amazon S3 “on the fly”? For example, to convert a file to a different format, or exclude sensitive data, or resize, compress and transform an image? Then you’ll be happy to hear that recently added…

While working with the network infrastructure you will undoubtedly run into defining subnets and groups of IP addresses. If you’re new to this, you probably find it challenging to understand the logic behind the notation that is most commonly used to describe a range of IP addresses. This short article…