Building a Replicated Logging System with Apache Kafka

Kafka, Samza and the Unix Philosophy of Distributed Data

Apache Kafka is a scalable message broker, and Apache Samza is a stream processing framework built upon Kafka. They are widely used as infrastructure for implementing personalized online services and real-time predictive analytics. Besides providing high throughput and low latency, Kafka and Samza are designed with operational robustness and long-term maintenance of applications in mind. In thi...

Letter from the Editor - in - Chief Delayed

Apache Kafka is a scalable message broker, and Apache Samza is a stream processing framework built upon Kafka. They are widely used as infrastructure for implementing personalized online services and real-time predictive analytics. Besides providing high throughput and low latency, Kafka and Samza are designed with operational robustness and long-term maintenance of applications in mind. In thi...

Real-time Text Analytics Pipeline Using Open-source Big Data Tools

Real-time text processing systems are required in many domains to quickly identify patterns, trends, sentiments, and insights. Nowadays, social networks, e-commerce stores, blogs, scientific experiments, and server logs are main sources generating huge text data. However, to process huge text data in real time requires building a data processing pipeline. The main challenge in building such pip...

‘Like waking up in a Franz Kafka novel’: Service users' experiences of the child protection system when domestic violence and acrimonious separations are involved

Processing IoT Data with Cloud Computing for Smart Cities

A smart city requires the intelligent management of infrastructure like the Internet of Things (IoT) devices in order to provide smart services that improve the quality of human life. To obtain the information needed to implement smart city services, stream reasoning is used to intelligently process the big data stream constantly generated from IoT devices. However, there are constraints associ...