InfluxDB and Kafka aren’t competitors – they’re complimentary. Streaming data, and more specifically time series data, travels in high volumes and velocities. Adding InfluxDB to your Kafka cluster provides specialized handling for your time series data. This specialized handling includes real-time queries and analytics, and integration with cutting edge machine learning and artificial intelligence technologies. Companies like as Hulu paired their InfluxDB instances with Kafka.

Apache Kafka, born at LinkedIn in 2010, has revolutionized real-time data streaming and has become a staple in many enterprise architectures. As it facilitates seamless processing of vast data volumes in distributed ecosystems, the importance of visibility into its operations has risen substantially. In this blog, we’re setting our sights on the step-by-step deployment of a containerized Kafka cluster, accompanied by a Python application to validate its functionality. The cherry on top?

Data challenges resulting from expanding product catalog solved with Aiven for Apache Kafka® on Google Cloud.

Cluster configuration backups are available on Aiven for Apache Kafka! Find out how it can save time for your team while restoring your cluster configuration.

Aiven for Apache Kafka® brings Kafka quotas to help organizations control the resources client applications can use in a Kafka cluster.

Social media archiving & insights platform, Brolly, needed a robust and compliant way to capture and store its massive volumes of customer data.

Aiven helps Schibsted Media Group maintain a stable Apache Kafka® cluster essential to making timely data-driven business decisions and creating business value out of data.