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There is data in motion, and then there is really big data in motion. The folks at LinkedIn gave us a compelling example of the latter today when it announced that it’s using the distributed messaging system Kafka to process more than 1.1 trillion ...

Managing message offsets I mentioned in Part 1 that whenever a producer publishes a message, the Kafka server assigns an offset to that message. A consumer is able to control which messages it wants to consume by setting or resetting the message offset. When developing a consumer you have two options for managing the offset: automatic and manual.

The New York Giants announced on Monday that Mike Kafka will serve as the team's interim head coach after they fired Brian Daboll. Kafka was the assistant head coach/offensive coordinator for the Giants when Daboll was the head coach. On Wednesday, Kafka ...