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Introduction Apache Kafka has become the backbone of modern real-time systems — enabling everything from sensor telemetry and financial transactions to personalized customer experiences. But Kafka, by itself, is complex to deploy, scale, and operate ...

Introduction We are in the era where Real-time data ingestion has become one of the critical requirement for many organizations which are seeking to tap the value from their data in Real-time and near Real-time. Real-time data ingestion has grown to ...

In recent years, it has become apparent that almost no production system is complete without real-time data. This can also be observed through the rise of streaming platforms such as Apache Kafka, Apache Pulsar, Redpanda, and RabbitMQ. This tutorial...

When setting up a streaming application, especially if you’re new to streaming data platforms like Redpanda, you’ll want to test that your application is set up correctly. You can do this using integration tests. Integration tests check your produce...

In 2022, over 2.5 quintillion bytes of data are created daily. As of 2025, estimates increase to 463 exabytes of data each day. Creating data is good, and being able to keep it somewhere it’s always accessible, like the cloud, is great. Being able to...

This post was written by Celso Fernandes and originally published on the Redpanda blog. If you’re already using Redpanda, then you know one of its most alluring draws is its intention to make data streaming development work as simple as possible. H...
