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Considerations when moving your Apache Kafka to the cloud

Are you running your organization's Apache Kafka on-premise? If you are and you’re still reading this article, it’s more than likely that Kafka is or will be a keystone of your data infrastructure. But it’s also likely your teams are tired of the cost and complexity required to scale it, meaning your honeymoon with Kafka is coming to an end. So what does the imminent migration mean?

Escaping GKE gVisor sandboxing using metadata

GKE is a Google Cloud service that offers a managed Kubernetes cluster, the nodes of the clusters are running on Google Cloud VM instances, the control plane and network is fully managed by GKE. GKE offers a sandboxing feature (https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/concepts/sandbox-pods ), based on gVisor (https://gvisor.dev/docs/ ) it protects the host kernel from untrusted code.

Amazon Kinesis vs. Kafka: A Detailed Comparison of Data Stream Services

The key differences between Amazon Kinesis and Kafka are: Introducing data streamers! These services validate and route messages from one application to another, managing workload and message queues effectively. The result? Users process messages through a centralized processor and handle large data streams more efficiently. Amazon Kinesis and Apache Kafka are two data stream services.

How ASEAN Retailers Can Become insight driven with a Hybrid Cloud data strategy

There has been an e-commerce explosion this year as consumers seek safety and convenience from the comfort of their own homes using digital tools to purchase everything from durable hard goods to fashion accessories to daily living consumables like food perishables, cleaning products and even school supplies.

Unlocking Value by Going All-in On The Data Cloud

Snowflake met with Mark Stange-Tregear, Vice President of Analytics for Rakuten Rewards, and Andrew Parry, Vice President of IT Application Development for Office Depot, at Data Cloud Summit 2020. The Data Cloud is unlocking new ways of delivering products and services to customers, managing supply chains, and collaborating globally. Rakuten Rewards and Office Depot are going “all- in” on the Snowflake Data Cloud to transform their businesses. Q. How does data affect your business?

Three Takeaways from Amazon CTO's Keynote at AWS Reinvent 2020

One of the highly anticipated events every year is the keynote from Dr. Werner Vogels at the annual AWS Reinvent conference. As CTO of Amazon, Dr. Vogels has considerable influence on product and engineering innovation that directly impacts hundreds of millions of users and developers. Here are three takeaways from Dr. Vogels’ keynote this year.

Considerations for Deploying a Multi-Cloud Architecture with Kong Gateway, Kuma Service Mesh and Aviatrix

Building a multi-region or multi-cloud environment for your applications requires a lot of attention. In a typical deployment, you would have an API gateway running close to the several application runtimes. You should enhance your deployment to support different regions in a given cloud, or in an even more distributed and hybrid scenario, multiple services running across other public clouds and on-premise environments.

405% 3-year ROI Procuring Snowflake Through AWS Marketplace: New Forrester TEI Study

Snowflake is delighted to share the findings of a new Forrester Consulting Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) study that examines the potential return on investment for organizations that procure Snowflake through Amazon Web Services (AWS) Marketplace and then use Snowflake as a core part of your application’s architecture. We commissioned the study in partnership with AWS.

Enter the Next Level: Migrating to Cloud Native Platform

Organizations are moving from centralized data centers to distributed cloud native platforms. Due to the complexity of such a migration, an organization would be running a hybrid multi-platform environment which spans from the old to the new world. It starts at the edge of a system, using functionality provided by an API gateway or platform.