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September 15, 2021 15 Sep'21
Kafka streaming data gets governance from Confluent

Apache Kafka event streaming from Confluent helps online grocery provider Instacart deliver milk to customers when they need it, by helping to power real-time inventory updates.
August 06, 2021 06 Aug'21
Why City Furniture embraced data virtualization

With data coming from on-premises and cloud sources and spanning legacy systems, databases and even flat files, City Furniture faced problems bringing all its data together.
July 20, 2021 20 Jul'21
Monte Carlo Incident IQ looks to improve data observability

Various problems can cause data pipelines to break or contain inaccurate information. Monte Carlo aims to help its users figure out the root cause and fix it.
July 09, 2021 09 Jul'21
Rockset adds MySQL connector to real-time indexing database

Rockset made a set of connectors for MySQL and PostgreSQL generally available. The tools enable real-time data indexing for analytics on transactional data.

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