Paul Brebner

Technology Evangelist at Instaclustr

Paul has extensive R&D and consulting experience in distributed systems, technology innovation, software architecture, and engineering, software performance and scalability, grid and cloud computing, and data analytics and machine learning.

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How to size Apache Kafka® clusters for Tiered Storage: Part 3

Check out Part 3 in our series on Apache Kafka® Tiered Storage: A Kafka performance model for SSDs/EBS, network, IO, and now—...

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How to size Apache Kafka® clusters for Tiered Storage: Part 2

In Part 2 of this series, we're exploring Apache Kafka® Tiered Storage cluster performance model for SSDs/EBS, network, I/O, and ...

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How to size Apache Kafka® clusters for Tiered Storage: Part 1–A Kafka performance model ...

This guide explores how to you resize a Kafka cluster (using Solid State Drives [SSDs] for local storage) for producer and ...

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Why is Apache Kafka® Tiered Storage more like a dam than a fountain? Part 4: Tiered ...

In this latest part, we’ll explore the impact of various consumer behaviors on the amount and age of data processed in Kafka...

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Why is Apache Kafka® Tiered Storage more like a dam than a fountain? Part 3: Kafka time ...

Let's take a broader look at why and when more and older data motivates potential Apache Kafka Tiered Storage use cases...

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It's a ClickHouse® Christmas!

All I want for Christmas is…a new real-time stream processing technology: ClickHouse...

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Why is Apache Kafka® Tiered Storage more like a dam than a fountain? Part 2

Why is Apache Kafka® Tiered Storage more like a dam than a fountain? Discover all of our testing metrics in Part 2 of this series...

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Why is Apache Kafka® Tiered storage more like a dam than a fountain? Part 1

Why is Apache Kafka more like a dam than fountain? There are lots of reasons, and in Part 1 of this new series, we explain why...

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Get Your Apache Camel™ Kafka Connectors in a Row

There are a lot of Apache Camel™ Kafka connectors out there – so come and get your "Camels" in a row and find out the best ones to...