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With companies producing data from an increasing number of systems and devices, messaging and event streaming solutions—particularly Apache Kafka—have gained widespread adoption. Over the past year, we’ve been tracking the progress of Apache Pulsar (Pulsar), a less well-known but highly capable open source solution originated by Yahoo. Pulsar is designed to intelligently process, analyze, and deliver data from an expanding array of services and applications, and thus it fits nicely into modern data platforms. Pulsar is also designed to ease the operational burdens normally associated with complex, distributed systems. Of the thousands of recent visitors to the site: 33% are from the Americas, 36% from Asia-Pacific, and 27% were based in the EMEA region. While Apache Kafka is by far the most popular pub/sub solution, over the last year, we’ve started to come across numerous companies that use Pulsar. It turns out that Pulsar has a few features these companies value, including: Mu...

Statistics, the lifetime equation, and when data science will end The pursuit of astronomy has been a gradual process of uncovering the insignificance of humanity. We started out in the center of the universe with the cosmos literally revolving around us. Then we were rudely relegated to one of 8 planets orbiting the sun, a sun which subsequently was revealed to be just one of billions of stars (and not even a large one) in our galaxy. This galaxy, the majestic Milky Way, seemed pretty impressive until Hubble discovered that all those fuzzy objects in the sky are billions of other galaxies, each of which has billions of stars (potentially with their own intelligent life). The demotion has only continued in the 21st century, as mathematicians and physicists have concluded the universe is one of an infinity of universes collectively called the multiverse. Read full article >>>