Thomas Alex joins Lara Rubbelke to discuss how Microsoft uses Apache Kafka for HDInsight to power Siphon, a data ingestion service for internal use. Apache Kafka for HDInsight is an enterprise-grade, open-source, streaming ingestion service. Microsoft created Siphon as a highly available and reliable service to ingest massive amounts of data for processing in near real time. Siphon handles ingestion of over a trillion events per day across multiple business-critical scenarios at Microsoft. In this episode, learn how Siphon uses Apache Kafka for HDInsight as its scalable pub/sub message queue.Jump To: [01:50] Demo Start For more information:Quickstart: Create a Kafka on HDInsight clusterTutorial: Use Spark Structured Streaming with Kafka on HDInsightApache Kafka for HDInsight overviewAzure HDInsight pricingSiphon: Streaming data ingestion with Apache KafkaCreate a free account (Azure)Follow @sqlgal Follow @AzureFriday Follow @AzureHDInsight