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What’s new in Kafka® 4.1.0? Introducing the new Streams Rebalance Protocol

It’s been a while since I’ve looked at new Apache Kafka versions and features (Kafka 4.0.0 back in July/August 2025, just after&...

Migrating Ansible AWX: From Docker to a Kubernetes framework

NetApp recently started using Kubernetes with our fleet automation tooling on the NetApp Instaclustr Platform. It took us a few ...

Under the hood: Engineering faster ClickHouse® performance

Speed matters in data analytics. When you are processing billions of rows, even small performance improvements compound into ...

IBM, Confluent Acquisition: What it means for your data strategy

Industry mergers like IBM's Confluent acquisition may be signaling a shift in the data stack. Learn how consolidation can impact ...

The end of neutrality? Navigating the consolidation of the modern data stack

We are witnessing a profound shift in the technology landscape. While recent headlines have focused heavily on IBM’s major ...

Freezing streaming data into Apache Iceberg™—Part 2: Using Iceberg Topics

In this 2-part blog series, we are exploring the use case of “freezing” streaming Apache Kafka data into (Apache) Iceberg! In ...

Freezing streaming data into Apache Iceberg™—Part 1: Using Apache Kafka®Connect Iceberg ...

Introduction Ever since the first distributed system—i.e. 2 or more computers networked together (in 1969)—there has been the ...

How to get OpenTelemetry traces from Apache Kafka clients into OpenSearch using Jaeger

End-to-end distributed tracing of complex applications is a critical pillar of modern distributed systems observability ...

Traditional vs. vector search: Which is right for you?

Traditional vs. vector search You’ve probably run into some of these situations: Searching for information about a specific topic ...