How the IBM Confluent Acquisition Changes MQ and Kafka in 2026 Imagine you are an enterprise architect building a modern data system. You need to safely move highly sensitive financial transactions. You also need to stream millions of user clicks to your analytics dashboard in real time. For a decade, IT directors fiercely debated the [...]
Middleware problems do not always start with a major outage. A queue may slowly start filling up. Messages may sit longer than usual. An application may stop reading messages. A channel may go down while new messages continue to arrive. Each of those things tells you something. The real value comes from seeing how [...]
Understanding MQ vs Kafka: How They Differ and Work Together This blog post will explore the key differences and similarities between two leading messaging solutions: MQ and Kafka. We will examine their unique features and use cases and how they can work together to create robust, real-time data processing systems. Additionally, we will discuss the [...]
Serverless is the new buzzword with techies these days. There are certainly ideal business applications for it, like helping to tame costs of idle infrastructure for data-intensive applications. Upstash, a San Jose based low-latency data platform start-up is using serverless and durable storage to disrupt the Kafka market place. The Low latency, pay-as-you-go serverless database [...]
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