Data Today: Kafka, Flafka, + More

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1. Flafka A new integration between Flume and Kafka offers sub-second-latency event processing without the need for dedicated infrastructure. 2. New ways to manage fast data Andy Oram gives examples of multi-layer, three-tier data-processing architecture. Thanks to VoltDB for sponsoring this Radar post. 3. Planning an IOT architecture in the data center How do you plan for the surge of data that the Internet of Things brings? TechTarget offers some tips. (If you're interested in the IoT and like technologies and innovations, subscribe to our weekly IoT newsletter.) 4. Probabilistic data structures for Go For those times when you’re willing to trade accuracy for memory usage, here’s anintroduction to the go-probably library. 5. Building Apache Kafka from scratch Check out this recent O'Reilly Data Show Podcast: Jay Kreps talks about data integration, event data, and the Internet of Things. (We don't always have room to mention the Data Show podcasts here, but you can subscribe to the O’Reilly Data Show Podcast through SoundCloud or iTunes. Solid Conference is back & looking for presenters Solid, the O'Reilly Internet of Things conference, is returning to Fort Mason in San Francisco June 23-25, 2015. If you're interested in speaking at Solid, take a look at the topics we're most interested in and get tips for creating a great proposal. Learn More → 6. Visual guide to NoSQL systems Here's a useful way of looking at the NoSQL landscape. 7. Why the data center needs an operating system Benjamin Hindman says it’s time for applications—not servers—to rule the data center. How Bitcoin 2.0 will shape the future of business Join Chris Clark on Tues. Dec. 16 in this free one-hour webcast that will explore smart contracts and how decentralized organizations will change the relationship between business and government. Learn More → 8. Large scale deep learning Jeff Dean (and other colleagues at Google) prepared this white paper on large scale deep learning. 9. Data transfer in space Two European satellites exchanged data from 45,000 km apart using laser communications terminals that could become a part of a future space data highway. 10. Freebie of the week Get Chapter 1 (Core Technologies) and Chapter 2 (Database and Data Management) from the preview edition of the Field Guide to Hadoop, free. Thanks to Pentaho for sponsoring this week's freebie. Free Chapters from the Field Guide to Hadoop →