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E-Book

Data Engineering Essentials: Streaming Data into Apache Iceberg™

Learn how Redpanda simplifies streaming data into Iceberg. Explore its architecture, use cases, and easy ingestion steps.

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Guide

Redpanda vs. Kafka: A practical guide for leaders working with real-time data

A straightforward summary of everything you need to know before choosing the right platform for you.

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The essentials of Apache Kafka: Your guide to real-time data streaming

A quick guide on Kafka’s architecture, core concepts, and applications. Perfect for both beginners and experts in data streaming.

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Redpanda vs. Confluent: A Performance and TCO Benchmark Report (January, 2025)

Read McKnight's benchmark on Redpanda vs. Confluent, with insights on performance, cost efficiency, and scalability.

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Guide

Apache Kafka use cases

Learn about key Kafka use cases, industry-specific applications, and instances where Kafka may not be the ideal solution.

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Guide

The Kafka cloud—options and best practices

Learn about popular approaches to run Apache Kafka in the cloud and simpler alternatives.

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Guide

Kafka architecture—a deep dive

Learn the basic building blocks and explore Kafka's design principles.

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Guide

Understanding event stream processing

Learn about the principles, considerations, best practices, and trends of event stream processing.

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Guide

Data engineering 101

Learn how data engineering converts raw data into actionable business insights.

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Guide

Comparing Apache Kafka alternatives

Compare popular Kafka alternatives and how they stack up against Redpanda.

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Guide

Improving performance in Apache Kafka

Understand what affects Kafka's performance and how you can optimize it.

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Benchmark

Redpanda vs Kafka replication protocols

An availability footprint of the Redpanda and Apache Kafka® replication protocols.

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Benchmark

Redpanda vs Kafka transactions

See how with Redpanda you don't have to choose between transactionality and performance.

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Benchmark

Arm vs Intel comparison benchmark

Comparing Graviton-based systems vs x86 hardware for real-time applications.

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Guide

Understanding Apache Kafka

Learn the most important Kafka fundamentals, features, and popular use cases.

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Benchmark

Performance of Redpanda vs Apache Kafka

This blog post covers what's great about Apache Kafka® API and where we found room for improvement.

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Report

Why low-latency matters

Learn how latency can make or break your business.

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Gaming industry use cases report

See how esports and game development teams can realize real-time patterns with Redpanda.

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Report

Build operational systems with Redpanda

Exploring event-driven microservice architectures for payments systems.

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Redpanda's official Jepsen report

Analysis of our official Jepsen report, including a look at write-write conflicts in the Apache Kafka® protocol.

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Redpanda vs Kafka TCO/perf benchmark

Redpanda is 10x faster, while reducing costs by 6x. See all the data.

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Guide

Redpanda architecture and sizing guide

Our recommended guidelines for sizing production Redpanda clusters.

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Report

Kafka vs Redpanda capability comparison

Learn what sets Redpanda apart from Apache Kafka® while offering Kafka-compatibility.

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Cheat Sheet

A beginner’s guide to rpk commands

Skip straight to mastery with this quick guide on rpk’s must-know commands.

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Report

Migrating from Apache Kafka to Redpanda

Your migration handbook to smoothly transition from Kafka to Redpanda.

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Data streaming for AI in the financial services industry

A closer look at the challenges holding companies back from successfully adopting AI—and how to solve them.

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Report

The State of Streaming Data Report (2023-24)

Independent analysis of the size, shape and scope of modern streaming data deployments.

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Conference

KubeCon | CloudNativeCon NA

Nov 10, 2025

Join us at KubeCon | CloudNativeCon in November. We look forward to seeing you there!

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Conference

Big Data London

Sep 24, 2025

Come say hi to us this September at Big Data London. We look forward to seeing you there!

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Conference

Data + AI Summit

Jun 9, 2025

Stop by our booth at the Data + AI Summit this June. We look forward to seeing you there!

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Conference

Snowflake Summit

Jun 2, 2025

Join us at the Snowflake Summit in San Francisco. We look forward to seeing you there!

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Conference

Data & Analytics Summit 2025 UK

May 12, 2025

Come say hi to us this May at Gartner's Data and Analytics Summit in London. We look forward to seeing you there!

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Conference

AWS Summit London 2025

Apr 30, 2025

Join us at the AWS Summit in April. We look forward to seeing you there!

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Fireside Chat

Data Warehouse Modernization: Unlocking Real-Time AI & Intelligence with SAP, Snowflake & Redpanda

Apr 17, 2025

Learn how Onibex One Connect and Redpanda deliver real-time SAP data streaming to Snowflake, unlocking AI/ML capabilities, predictive analytics, and enterprise-wide decision-making—reserve your spot today!

Conference

Google Next

Apr 9, 2025

Stop by our booth at Google Next '25 this April. We look forward to seeing you there!

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Conference

QCon (InfoQ) London

Apr 7, 2025

Join us at QCon (InfoQ) in April. We look forward to seeing you there!

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Conference

Iceberg Summit 2025

Apr 8, 2025

Join us at the Iceberg Summit in April. We look forward to seeing you there!

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Streamcast

Getting started with Redpanda

Apr 8, 2025

Interactive session on getting started with Redpanda

Conference

KubeCon | CloudNativeCon EU

Apr 1, 2025

Join us at KubeCon | CloudNativeCon in April. We look forward to seeing you there!

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Streamcast

Working with Redpanda

Mar 26, 2025

Interactive session on Redpanda best practices

Workshop

Build GenAI apps with serverless architecture and data streaming

Watch this interactive workshop on building GenAI applications with serverless architecture and data streaming, featuring hands-on labs with AWS Lambda, Amazon Bedrock, and Redpanda.

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Tech Talk

Faster, Smarter, Efficient Data Streaming to Snowflake

Discover how Redpanda’s new Snowflake Connector delivers 2X faster ingestion, enabling real-time analytics with lower infrastructure costs and seamless integration.

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Workshop

Build GenAI apps with serverless architecture and data streaming

Interactive workshop on building GenAI applications with serverless architecture and data streaming, featuring hands-on labs with AWS Lambda, Amazon Bedrock, and Redpanda.

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Streamcast

Fireside Chat with Jump Trading & Redpanda

Learn how Jump Trading replaced Kafka with Redpanda for faster, simpler real-time data streaming. Watch this on-demand Fireside Chat to explore the benefits.

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Streamcast

Getting started with Redpanda

Learn how to get started with Redpanda in this interactive session covering architecture, deployment, use cases, and best practices, with live Q&A.

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Streamcast

Working with Redpanda

Interactive session on Redpanda best practices, from configuration and replication to deployment modes.

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Workshop

Stream processing with Flink & Redpanda

Explore real-time data streaming, architecture best practices, and live demos. Sign up now!

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Workshop

Day 2 Operations with Redpanda

Master the art of managing and maintaining Redpanda clusters in this interactive 2-hour session. Learn cluster health checks, Grafana and Prometheus alerting, broker management, and more with expert guidance from Redpanda Solutions Architects.

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Conference

Streamfest

Watch Streamfest, the premier virtual event for data engineers and architects to enhance their streaming data skills for real-time apps, analytics, and AI.

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Workshop

Redpanda in Kubernetes

Interactive session on deploying Redpanda in Kubernetes. Learn how to install, configure, and monitor Redpanda clusters, followed by hands-on labs and Q&A throughout the session. Perfect for cloud-native organizations!

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Streamcast

Fireside Chat with LiveRamp & Redpanda

Learn how LiveRamp drives real-time personalization and cuts costs with Redpanda.

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Streamcast

Migrating from Kafka to Redpanda

Learn how to plan, migrate, test, and troubleshoot your clusters with insights from our solutions architects.

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Workshop

Stream processing with Flink & Redpanda

Watch this hands-on lab in where we explored a particularly fun use case with these technologies — algorithmic trading.

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Streamcast

Getting started with Redpanda

Join this 1-hour session to learn tips and tricks for best use of Redpanda's streaming data engine.

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Workshop

Redpanda Connect

Watch this two-hour, hands-on, beginner-friendly masterclass designed to help developers master Redpanda Connect

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Tech Talk

StoneX: Redpanda for retail trading

Insight into how the StoneX Retail business unit is reducing costs and improving scale for their for latency-sensitive business products.

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Tech Talk

Friendly guide to rpk – Redpanda's command-line interface

Take a tour of the cool, dev-friendly features in rpk and learn how to use them like a pro with illustrated explanations and handy tips.

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Tech Talk

Lacework: Pipedreaming with Redpanda

Hear how Lacework built a scalable, reliable, efficient, cloud-agnostic streaming data pipeline to power its cloud security platform with Redpanda.

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Tech Talk

Optimizing Redpanda's read path for tiered storage

Redpanda founder and CEO Alex Gallego discusses Redpanda internals, live-drawing about how we optimize the read path for tiered storage.

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Tech Talk

Unify real-time and historical data with Shadow Indexing

Redpanda founder Alex Gallego talks and illustrates how we built our Shadow Indexing tiered storage system for limitless ingestion and retention of data.

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Tech Talk

Building a complete IoT backend with Redpanda and Tinybird

Learn how to build a complete IoT backend in 45 minutes using Redpanda and Tinybird.

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Streamcast

Redpanda Data Transforms Launch Stream

See the next generation of streaming data from Redpanda — includes live data transforms demo, customer talks, AMA session & tech workshop

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Tech Talk

From batch to real-time: The evolution of streaming data

Redpanda founder Alex Gallego live-draws the evolution of streaming data and what’s left to do in building real-time data infrastructure.

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Tech Talk

Redpanda's internal communication infrastructure

Redpanda creator Alex Gallego illustrates the custom RPC library used by Redpanda for blazing-fast, CPU-efficient communication between servers.

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Tech Talk

A demonstration of Redpanda Console (Kowl)

Alex Gallego is joined by Kowl co-creator Martin Schneppenheim for an overview of what the Kowl UI brings to the Redpanda product suite.

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Tech Talk

Write path optimizations for tiered storage

Redpanda founder Alex Gallego illustrates subsystems, this time focusing on write path optimizations for tiered storage.

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Tech Talk

See how consumer groups work in Redpanda

Principal engineer Noah Watkins joins Alex Gallego to discuss (and draw) how Redpanda consumer groups differ from those in Kafka.

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Tech Talk

Tiered Storage

Hear about our tiered storage architecture, the benefits it brings and example use cases – from the team that built it.

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Tech Talk

Redpanda Console

Have a look at what you can do with our new web UI! This lightning talk includes a live demo of how to time-travel debug.

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Tech Talk

Remote Read Replicas

See our Remote Read Replicas in action. This demo will show you why it's like having a CDN for your streaming data.

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Tech Talk

Migrating from Confluent Cloud to Redpanda

Watch a migration from Confluent Cloud to Redpanda, and get an overview of Redpanda’s compatibility with Apache Kafka®.

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Tech Talk

Redpanda Serverless Launch Stream

Join us online for 45 minutes to see the latest streaming data advancements from Redpanda.

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Streamcast

Redpanda Serverless Launch Stream

Join us online for 45 minutes to see the latest streaming data advancements from Redpanda.

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Tech Talk

Redpanda versus Kafka

Got the need for speed? See how Redpanda performs against Apache Kafka for various workloads and differing numbers of brokers.

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Tech Talk

To stream or not to stream?

This fireside chat between Kelsey and Alex Gallego includes a candid look at when streaming data is the best approach for a use case — and when it is not.

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Tech Talk

The future of data engineering

The authors of Fundamentals of Data Engineering talk about the democratization of streaming, the rise of unstructured data, and new data paradigms.

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Tech Talk

The Data Engineering Podcast Episode 152

Tobias and Alex discuss Redpanda as an Apache Kafka® replacement for mission critical workloads.

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Tech Talk

Redpanda Data Transforms Launch Stream

See the next generation of streaming data from Redpanda — includes live data transforms demo, customer talks, AMA session & tech workshop

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Streamcast

Bringing transactionality to the streaming ecosystem

An architectural overview of Redpanda and how it brings durability and replayability to real-time systems.

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Tech Talk

Real-Time Predictions with Machine Learning & Streaming Data Transforms

Learn how to streamline data structures in AI applications and simplify data architecture in stateless pipelines for real-time analytics.

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Tech Talk

Fireside chat with LinkedIn's Kafka and Samza teams

We talk to LinkedIn's Apache Kafka® and Samza teams and dive deep into the technical architecture of Redpanda.

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Streamcast

Simplifying streaming data transforms with Wasm

An overview of a Wasm-based data transformation architecture and how it can improve real-time applications.

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Streamcast

Working with Redpanda

Learn the best techniques, tips, and tricks to configure and deploy Redpanda.

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Tech Talk

Redpanda talk at Performance Summit

How we built a new storage engine from scratch using a thread-per-core architecture for predictable tail latencies.

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Streamcast

Performance comparison: Graviton2 Arm vs Intel X86

Roko Kruse steps us through the performance of Graviton-based systems vs x86 hardware for real-time streaming data applications.

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Streamcast

Comparing the Performance and Cost of Streaming Data Platforms

Join our Solutions Architects for an in-depth benchmark comparison of throughput, latency and costs.

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Streamcast

Working with Redpanda

Learn how best to configure and deploy Redpanda, including configuration, replication, high availability, and more.

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Streamcast

Boost Kafka Developer Productivity with Redpanda & Testcontainers

See how Redpanda and Testcontainers help devs improve their Kafka testing practices, learn the benefits of Test Driven Design.

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Streamcast

Building real-time data apps with Redpanda & Decodable

See how to combine streaming data powered by Redpanda with stream processing from Decodable to build real-time data apps for your business.

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Streamcast

Data Sovereignty in the Cloud: Data Security Meets SaaS Efficiency

See how our Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) deployment solves data sovereignty while also providing expert maintenance and support.

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Streamcast

Tiered Storage and Remote Read Replicas

An interactive walkthrough Remote Read Replicas and audience Q&A.

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Tech Talk

Redpanda Connect Launch Stream (June 2024)

Join us online for 45 minutes to see the end-to-end stream processing capabilities made possible by our new Redpanda Connect.

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Streamcast

Getting started with Redpanda in Kubernetes

Learn how to install Redpanda in a Kubernetes cluster, deployment considerations, cluster configuration, day 2 operations and more.

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Streamcast

Tiered Storage Architecture and Use Cases

Learn about our ground-breaking tiered-storage architecture and how to leverage object stores for limitless ingestion and retention of data.

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Streamcast

New Features in Redpanda 22.2

Continuous Data Balancing, Remote Read Replicas and a demo our Redpanda Console.

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Workshop

Redpanda in Kubernetes

Join us for this hands-on lab, where we will step you through how to get started with our lightning-fast streaming data engine in Kubernetes.

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Workshop

Stream processing with Flink and Redpanda

Join us for a hands-on lab in which we explore a particularly fun use case with these technologies — algorithmic trading.

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Streamcast

Building a Distributed Data Platform for the Hospitality Industry

Hotels Network CTO Jordi Miró Bruix shares how his team built a distributed real-time data platform that processes >10PB per month.

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Streamcast

Streaming Data at the Edge

Join technical experts from Redpanda and Tinybird for this interactive session on building a high-performance IoT backend.

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Streamcast

Putting Redpanda to the Jepsen Test

Watch Kyle Kingsbury test if a system lives up to its claims, files new bugs, and makes recommendations for operators.

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Streamcast

Building GenAI applications using serverless architecture and data streaming

Join Redpanda and AWS teams for a virtual hands-on workshop on the essential tech stack for building GenAI applications

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Streamcast

Getting started with Redpanda

Join this session to better understand Redpanda and learn how to get started.

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Streamcast

Migrating from Kafka to Redpanda

Join our technical experts as we share how to smoothly transition your clusters from Kafka to Redpanda.

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Workshop

How to migrate from batch and Kafka to Redpanda streaming data

This 2-hour hands-on lab will cover how to smoothly transition from batch operations and also shift from Kafka instances to Redpanda.

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Streamcast

Hands-On Lab: Redpanda in Kubernetes

Join us for this hands-on lab on how to get started with our lightning-fast streaming data engine in Kubernetes.

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Streamcast

Emergence of the Live Data Stack

Join Joe Reis, co-author of The Fundamentals of Data Engineering, and Alex Gallego, founder and CEO of Redpanda.

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Workshop

How to Migrate from Batch and Kafka to Redpanda Streaming Data

Watch this masterclass to learn how to migrate from Apache Kafka to Redpanda, transitioning from batch to real-time data pipelines with expert insights.

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Workshop

Masterclass: Day 2 Operations with Redpanda

Join us for an intensive 2-hour masterclass on how to manage and maintain your Redpanda clusters.

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Apache Kafka use cases

Kafka messaging system

Learn how the Apache Kafka messaging system enables real-time data exchange, scalable communication, and fault tolerance for efficient event streaming and analytics.

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Apache Kafka use cases

Website activity tracking

Discover how to implement real-time website activity tracking using Apache Kafka and Apicurio to better understand user behavior and optimize overall website performance.

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Apache Kafka use cases

Log aggregation

Discover real-time insights and streamline log aggregation with Apache Kafka and Redpanda for enhanced system performance, monitoring, and troubleshooting.

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Apache Kafka use cases

Event-driven architecture

Discover how Redpanda simplifies event-driven architecture with fast, reliable data streaming and easy management, offering a seamless alternative to Kafka.

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Apache Kafka use cases

Stream processing

Learn how to build real-time event-driven applications with Kafka Streams. Explore use cases, key concepts, and how to optimize your stream processing architecture.

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Apache Kafka use cases

Kafka use cases overview

Discover the diverse use cases of Apache Kafka in real-time data processing across industries like retail, gaming, healthcare, and finance.

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Apache Kafka use cases

Kafka metrics

Explore key Kafka performance metrics like cluster, consumer, and producer to optimize Kafka operations, scale clusters, and improve data streaming performance.

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The Kafka cloud—options and best practices

Managed Kafka

Learn how managed Kafka solutions introduce efficiency over self-managed Kafka. Discover the pros and cons of various managed Kafka solutions.

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The Kafka cloud—options and best practices

Kafka headers

Learn how to use Kafka headers for use cases like metadata storage, routing, tracing, and more. Detail guide with code snippets included.

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The Kafka cloud—options and best practices

Kafka timer

Learn how to use timers in Kafka Streams for efficient real-time stream processing, including state management, delayed messaging, and windowed aggregations.

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The Kafka cloud—options and best practices

Kafka authentication

Learn how to implement Kafka authentication with SSL and SASL. Understand the role of listeners and KafkaPrincipal in Kafka authentication.

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The Kafka cloud—options and best practices

Kafka connectors

Learn about Kafka connectors and how they simplify data pipelines. Understand the role of converters and transformers. Code snippets included.

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The Kafka cloud—options and best practices

Kafka cloud

Learn about popular approaches to run Apache Kafka in the cloud like Amazon MSK, Azure HDInsight Kafka, K8s, serverless, and alternatives like Redpanda Cloud.

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