A major enterprise technology provider recently acquired the leading commercial Kafka vendor for $11bn. That number alone should make every data engineer and the newly…
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In September 2024, the I made a prediction that raised eyebrows across the data streaming community. We believed the dominant commercial Kafka vendor would be…
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