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Kai Wähner

  • Global Field CTO, Kestra
Erlangen, Germany, Munich
As seen in: InfoQ, DZone, Data Science Central, RTInsights, Security Insider, Der Brutkasten, Digitale Welt Magazin, IT Supply Chain, Finance Derivative
Advisory Field CTO (own company) and Global Field CTO at Kestra. Author, speaker. Data integration, process intelligence, orchestration, trusted agentic AI.
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Kafka vs Flink vs Spark: Do You Really Need Real-Time?

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By Kai Wähner
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Draft This article hasn't been published, so readers can't see it. In moderation This article is waiting for review, so readers can't see it yet. Deleted This article has been deleted, so readers can't see it. Join the DZone community Save articles, join the discussion, and download Refcards and Trend Reports with a free account. Real-time is the most overused word in data infrastructure. Every vendor in the Kafka vs Flink vs Spark debate leads with it. Milliseconds. Faster engines.
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When to Use AMQP, JMS, Kafka, or MQTT: Trade-Offs, Not a Winner

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By Kai Wähner
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Draft This article hasn't been published, so readers can't see it. In moderation This article is waiting for review, so readers can't see it yet. Deleted This article has been deleted, so readers can't see it. Join the DZone community Save articles, join the discussion, and download Refcards and Trend Reports with a free account. AMQP, JMS, Kafka, and MQTT get lined up as if you pick one and move on. Most of the time, that comparison is a category error.
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MQTT, Kafka, NATS, or Zenoh? Choosing Edge-to-Cloud Messaging by Traffic Pattern

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By Kai Wähner
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Draft This article hasn't been published, so readers can't see it. In moderation This article is waiting for review, so readers can't see it yet. Deleted This article has been deleted, so readers can't see it. Join the DZone community Save articles, join the discussion, and download Refcards and Trend Reports with a free account. Edge to cloud is not one integration problem. It is four: telemetry going up, control going down, sites syncing sideways, and data reaching people.
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