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The Past, Present, and Future of Confluent (The Kafka Company) and Databricks (The Spark Company)

Confluent + Databricks = real-time ops + powerful analytics; together, they unify streaming and AI for modern data-driven enterprises.

6d ago

The Past, Present, and Future of Confluent (The Kafka Company) and Databricks (The Spark Company)

6d ago

Real-Time Data Sharing in the Telco Industry for MVNO Growth and Beyond with Data Streaming

Real-time data streaming enables secure, scalable data sharing in Telco — powering MVNOs, IoT, and enterprise use cases in hybrid cloud.

Jul 3

Real-Time Data Sharing in the Telco Industry for MVNO Growth and Beyond with Data Streaming

Jul 3

Fraud Detection in Mobility Services (Ride-Hailing, Food Delivery) with Data Streaming using…

Mobility services like Uber/Grab use data streaming with Kafka & Flink for fraud detection by applying AI and machine learning in…

Jun 23

Fraud Detection in Mobility Services (Ride-Hailing, Food Delivery) with Data Streaming using…

Jun 23

Virta’s Electric Vehicle (EV) Charging Platform with Real-Time Data Streaming: Scalability for…

Virta’s Electric Vehicle (EV) charging platform with data streaming for predictive maintenance, smart billing, and a seamless user…

Jun 19

Virta’s Electric Vehicle (EV) Charging Platform with Real-Time Data Streaming: Scalability for…

Jun 19

Apache Kafka 4.0: The Business Case for Scaling Data Streaming Enterprise-Wide

Apache Kafka 4.0 marks a shift from infrastructure to business value — powering real-time, event-driven operations at global scale.

Jun 17

Apache Kafka 4.0: The Business Case for Scaling Data Streaming Enterprise-Wide

Jun 17

How Apache Kafka and Flink Power Event-Driven Agentic AI in Real Time

Agentic AI needs real-time data to act autonomously. Kafka + Flink + MCP + A2A enable scalable, event-driven, context-aware AI.

Jun 9

How Apache Kafka and Flink Power Event-Driven Agentic AI in Real Time

Jun 9

Shift Left Architecture at Siemens: Real-Time Data Streamin in Manufacturing and Logistics

Data streaming architecture at Siemens shows how Shift Left with Kafka and Flink drives real-time, modular, and intelligent manufacturing.

Jun 5

Shift Left Architecture at Siemens: Real-Time Data Streamin in Manufacturing and Logistics

Jun 5

The Importance of Focus: Why Software Vendors Should Specialize Instead of Doing Everything

The Importance of Focus: Why Software Vendors Should Specialize Instead of Doing Everything

Jun 2

The Importance of Focus: Why Software Vendors Should Specialize Instead of Doing Everything

Jun 2

The Top 20 Problems with Batch Processing (and How to Fix Them with Data Streaming)

20+ hidden issues with batch processing — like data loss, duplication, and latency — and why data streaming is the smarter solution.

May 28

The Top 20 Problems with Batch Processing (and How to Fix Them with Data Streaming)

May 28

Replacing Legacy Systems, One Step at a Time with Data Streaming: The Strangler Fig Approach

Modernize legacy systems without the risk of a full rewrite. Strangler Fig + data streaming enables scalable, real-time transformation.

May 23

Replacing Legacy Systems, One Step at a Time with Data Streaming: The Strangler Fig Approach

May 23

Kai Waehner

Kai Waehner

Technology Evangelist — www.kai-waehner.de → Big Data Analytics, Data Streaming, Apache Kafka, Middleware, Microservices => linkedin.com/in/kaiwaehner

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