The Quix blog

All Posts
2.0 text on radial gradient background
Quix

Announcing Quix 2.0—now with Git integration and multiple environments

Quix 2.0 is here 🚀 Designed around the concept of Infrastructure-as-Code, Quix 2.0 makes it easier to build and run reliable, powerful event-streaming applications that scale, with a single source of truth powered by Git.
Mike Rosam
Words by
Graphic featuring Apache Kafka and ActiveMQ logos
Explainer

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

The main difference between them is that Kafka is a distributed event streaming platform designed to ingest and process massive amounts of data, while ActiveMQ is a traditional message broker that supports multiple protocols and flexible messaging patterns.
Mike Rosam
Words by
The Stream April 2023 banner.
Community

The Stream — April 2023 edition

A monthly round-up of the most interesting news coming out of the stream processing ecosystem
Mike Rosam
Words by
Python and Quix logos in a colorful wavelength background.
Tutorial

A practical introduction to stream reprocessing in Python

Learn how to reprocess a stream of data with the Quix Streams Python library and Apache Kafka. You'll ingest some GPS telemetry data into a topic and replay the stream to try out different distance calculation methods.
Tomáš Neubauer
Words by
Quix vs Flink logos on purple background.
Explainer

Quix as an Apache Flink alternative: a side-by-side comparison

Explore the differences between Quix and Apache Flink and find out when it's better to use Quix as a Flink alternative. If you’re searching for Apache Flink alternatives, this guide offers a detailed, fair comparison to help you make an informed decision.
Mike Rosam
Words by
Kinesis vs Kafka logos on orange background.
Explainer

Kinesis vs Kafka - A comparison of streaming data platforms

A detailed comparison of Apache Kafka and Amazon Kinesis that covers categories such as operational attributes, pricing model, and time to production while highlighting their key differences and use cases that they typically address.
Mike Rosam
Words by
The Stream March 2023 banner.
Community

The Stream — March 2023 edition

A monthly round-up of the most interesting news coming out of the stream processing ecosystem
Mike Rosam
Words by
Quix and AWS logos on grey background and a bike.
Explainer

Exploring real-time and batch analytics for e-bike telemetry with Quix and AWS

How Brompton's experiments with Quix and AWS technology are paving the way for an enhanced e-bike riding experience.
Mike Rosam
Words by
Gzip compress to Kafka logos.
Tutorial

How to use gzip data compression with Apache Kafka and Python

Learn why data compression is vital and how use it with Kafka and kafka-python, focussing on gzip—one of the strongest compression tools that Kafka supports.
Tomáš Neubauer
Words by
Two black Quix windows open in different tabs.
Community

Introducing Quix Streams, an open source library for telemetry data streaming

Lightweight, powerful, no JVM and no need for separate clusters of orchestrators. Here’s a look at our next-gen streaming library for C# and Python developers including feature summaries, code samples, and a sneak peek into our roadmap.
Tomáš Neubauer
Words by
The Stream February 2023 banner.
Community

The Stream — February 2023 edition

Build a simple event-driven system to get ML predictions with Python and Apache Kafka
Mike Rosam
Words by
ML predictions with Python and Apache Kafka black background.
Tutorial

Build a simple event-driven system to get ML predictions with Python and Apache Kafka

Use the Quix Streams Python library to continuously stream email records from a CSV file, get an ML inference for each record, then stream the results back to a new Kafka topic.
Tomáš Neubauer
Words by
The Stream January 2023 banner.
Community

The Stream — January 2023 edition

How can you send time-series data to Apache Kafka using Python and Pandas? Plus Apache Flink news, memes, and meetups
Mike Rosam
Words by
Tabular time series data Kafka Python.
Tutorial

How to send tabular time series data to Apache Kafka with Python and Pandas

Use Python to process time series data and send it to Apache Kafka. You'll use a large sample data set from an online-retailer and send the records in batches with Pandas and the kafka-python library.
Tomáš Neubauer
Words by
The Stream December 2022 banner.
Community

The Stream — December 2022 edition

The December 2022 edition of The Stream: covering this month in stream processing on the internet.
Mike Rosam
Words by
Image showing icons of Quix and CoinAPI.
Tutorial

How to deploy a currency alerting pipeline with Quix and CoinAPI

How to build a powerful currency alerting pipeline in a few minutes with Quix and CoinAPI.
Tomáš Neubauer
Words by
The Stream November 2022 banner.
Community

The Stream — November 2022 edition

The November 2022 edition of The Stream: covering this month in stream processing on the internet.
Mike Rosam
Words by
Quix Zoom team meeting.
Quix

Quix raises $12.9m Series A to accelerate event-driven data apps

Why we've partnered with MMC Ventures, Project A Ventures and Passion Capital to accelerate our growth.
Mike Rosam
Words by
SQL CDC logo image.
Explainer

Build a CDC pipeline with the Quix SQL Server connector

Create a CDC pipeline and publish data to Kafka topics in just a few minutes with our open source SQL Server connector.
Steve Rosam
Words by
The Stream October 2022 banner.
Community

The Stream — October 2022 edition

The October 2022 edition of The Stream: covering this month in stream processing on the internet.
Mike Rosam
Words by
The stream

Updates to your inbox

Get the data stream processing community's newsletter. It's for sharing insights, events and community-driven projects.

Thank you! Your submission has been received!
Oops! Something went wrong while submitting the form.