Kafka acts as a queuing system for large IoT deployments, enabling storage and analytics systems to catch up to the high volumes of data produced by IoT devices.

Microsoft Corp. has just made it a little easier to build Internet of Things applications that rely on the popular open-source Apache Kafka streaming data ingestion engine.

Recently, Microsoft announced the general availability of Azure Event Hubs for Apache Kafka. Customers will get the best of both worlds—the ecosystem and tools of Kafka, along with Azure’s ...