How to Realize Real-Time Analytics and IoT Monetization with Kafka by Raj Nadipalli via
+Datafloq - Creating the architecture to
support real-time data analytics or monetisation of Internet of Things data is not easy. What is needed is a fast, reliable platform that can support IoT feeds and enable functionality like real-time financial metrics or geolocation of inventory/goods or credit card fraud detection. Fortunately there is Apache Kafka, but what is it?
Good summary of Kafka if you don't understand what it does.