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Ecosystem

How to fix common issues when using Spark Structured Streaming with PySpark and Kafka

A look at five common issues you might face when working with Structured Streaming, PySpark, and Kafka, along with practical steps to help you overcome them.
Steve Rosam
Head of Content
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Ecosystem

Quix Streams—a reliable Faust alternative for Python stream processing

A detailed comparison between Faust and Quix Streams covering criteria like performance, coding experience, features, integrations, and product maturity.
Steve Rosam
Head of Content
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Ecosystem

Debugging PyFlink import issues

Solutions to a common issue that Python developers face when setting up PyFlink to handle real-time data.
Steve Rosam
Head of Content
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Ecosystem

Choosing a Python Kafka client: A comparative analysis

Assessing Python clients for Kafka: kafka-python, Confluent, and Quix Streams. Learn how they compare in terms of DevEx, broker compatibility, and performance.
Steve Rosam
Head of Content
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Ecosystem

PyFlink — A deep dive into Flink’s Python API

Learn how to use PyFlink for data processing workloads, read about its architecture, and discover its strengths and limitations.
Steve Rosam
Head of Content
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Ecosystem

Understanding Kafka’s auto offset reset configuration: Use cases and pitfalls

The auto.offset.reset configuration defines how Kafka consumers should behave when no initial committed offsets are available for the partitions assigned to them. Learn how to work with this configuration and discover its related challenges.
Tim Sawicki
Senior Python Engineer
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Ecosystem

Kafka vs Spark - a comparison of stream processing tools

This comparison specifically focuses on Kafka and Spark's streaming extensions — Kafka Streams and Spark Structured Streaming. Kafka Streams excels in per-record processing with a focus on low latency, while Spark Structured Streaming stands out with its built-in support for complex data processing tasks, including advanced analytics, machine learning and graph processing.
Tun Shwe
VP Data
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Ecosystem

Fargate vs Lambda: a comparison of serverless technologies

The main difference between these two serverless compute platforms is that AWS Fargate takes care of the underlying VMs, networking, and other resources you need to run containers using ECS or EKS, whereas AWS Lambda lets you run standalone, stateless functions without having to consider any of the infrastructure whatsoever.
Mike Rosam
CEO & Co-Founder
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Ecosystem

Amazon ECS vs. EKS. vs. Fargate: a comparison of container management services

The main difference between them? ECS and EKS are container orchestration services for Docker and Kubernetes that simplify the deployment, management, and scaling of containerized apps. Meanwhile, Fargate is a serverless compute engine that works with both ECS and EKS, removing the need to manage underlying server infrastructure.
Mike Rosam
CEO & Co-Founder
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Ecosystem

Redpanda vs. Kafka: comparing architectures, capabilities, and performance

The main difference between them? Kafka is an established Java-based data streaming platform, with a large community and a robust ecosystem. Meanwhile, Redpanda is an emerging, Kafka-compatible tech written in C++, with an architecture designed for high performance and simplicity.
Mike Rosam
CEO & Co-Founder
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Ecosystem

ActiveMQ vs. Kafka: A comparison of differences and use cases

We explore the differences between Kafka and ActiveMQ, and which use cases each are best suited to.
Mike Rosam
CEO & Co-Founder
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Ecosystem

Apache Kafka vs. RabbitMQ: Comparing architectures, capabilities, and use cases

The main difference between them is that Kafka is an event streaming platform designed to ingest and process massive amounts of data, while RabbitMQ is a general-purpose message broker that supports flexible messaging patterns, multiple protocols, and complex routing.
Mike Rosam
CEO & Co-Founder
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Ecosystem

Apache Beam vs. Apache Spark: Big data processing solutions compared

The main difference between Spark and Beam is that the former enables you to both write and run data processing pipelines, while the latter allows you to write data processing pipelines, and then run them on various external execution environments (runners). But what are the other differences between Spark and Beam, and how are they similar?
Alex Diaconu
Technical Writer
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Ecosystem

Kafka vs Pulsar: Streaming data platforms compared

An in-depth comparison of Apache Kafka and Pulsar, covering criteria such as architectural differences, operational attributes, developer experience, ecosystems, deployment options, and security.
Alex Diaconu
Technical Writer
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Ecosystem

Accelerating AI-ready application development: Quix and Confluent partnership

Teams can now build AI applications on Confluent’s data in motion, with Quix, the AI-ready event streaming application framework.
Mike Rosam
CEO & Co-Founder
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Ecosystem

Unlocking new use cases: Quix and Confluent partnership

Explore the AI applications that you can build when connecting Quix with Confluent.
Mike Rosam
CEO & Co-Founder
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Ecosystem

Apache Kafka vs Apache Flink: friends or rivals?

Explore the unique features and limitations of Apache Kafka and Apache Flink and learn how these open source streaming titans can either join forces or operate independently.
Tun Shwe
VP Data
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Ecosystem

The drawbacks of ksqlDB in machine learning workflows

Using ksqlDB for real-time feature transformations isn't as easy as it looks. I revisit the strategy to democratize stream processing and examine what's still missing.
Mike Rosam
CEO & Co-Founder