DigitalOcean has introduced DigitalOcean Managed Kafka, a fully managed data streaming platform for Apache Kafka. This service aims to assist small and medium-sized businesses in various industries, such as video streaming, IoT, data analytics, gaming, and eCommerce, by providing real-time data stream access and processing without the need for complex Kafka administration. “While Kafka is … continue reading
Kubernetes has become the de facto approach to container microservices. It offers extensibility, stability, and insight that doesn’t exist in other open source solutions. It has become a staple in the DevOps toolchain and it shows no signs of slowing down. When companies wish to run Kafka or Elasticsearch, Kubernetes has become the go-to option. … continue reading
Pepperdata has announced it is adding a new product to its data analytics suite designed for IT teams. Streaming Spotlight provides IT teams with a single view of their analytics stack. Admins can integrate Kafka monitoring metrics into the Streaming Spotlight dashboard to get more visibility into Kafka cluster metrics, broker health, topics and partitions. … continue reading
Open Source-as-a-Service platform provider Instaclustr announced the launch of its Apache Kafka managed service today, providing Kafka’s high-volume data management and streaming alongside its other managed service offerings, which include Apache Cassandra, Spark, Lucene, the Elasticsearch and Apache co-production Elassandra amongst others. The SOC2-certified service provides high throughput and availability via distributed server cluster; integrations … continue reading