Joe Carder

In this blog, our expert compares the major differences and use cases for three message brokers: IBM MQ, which is proprietary software, and Kafka and ActiveMQ, which are open source.

Kafka 4 is here. Get details on the major changes, removals, and what to consider as you plan your Kafka upgrade.

Get an overview of Kafka Raft (KRaft) metadata mode and find how it differs from ZooKeeper, which will no longer be supported in Kafka 4.X releases.

In this blog, read case studies about some of the complex Apache Kafka issues that the OpenLogic Professional Services team was able to resolve for finance, marketing, and aerospace customers.

In this blog, our expert compares Redis, an open source key-value database, to other open source data technologies.

Kafka vs. Redis, while an often-searched topic, isn't the 1:1 comparison a lot of people seem to think it is. See why in this blog.

Our expert explains what’s new in Kafka 3.5, touching on new and deprecated features, as well as what may be coming in future 3.x releases and what to consider before upgrading.

This blog gives an overview of ActiveMQ Artemis features, how it compares to vanilla ActiveMQ, and considerations for use in production.

In this blog, our expert discusses the popular combination of Apache Kafka and Spark Streaming for processing data streams, compares Kafka Streams to Spark Streaming, and explains how to integrate Kafka and Spark.