And as Peter Kafka pointed out the other day, fears about cord cutting seem to be somewhat overblown.

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Of course the site raises lots of legal questions, as Peter Kafka points out today on All Things D.

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Emerging technologies such as Storm and Kafka are designed to provide real-time streaming analytics, which is critical for volume data feeds such as social networks.

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The Grand Hotel Europa, a stunning Art Nouveau building on the north side of Wenceslas Square, was known to Kafka as the Hotel Erzherzog Stefan.

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But as Erik Sherman and Peter Kafka and even I have pointed out, TV remains a very different animal indeed.

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"We must do everything possible so that the Church may never look like that complicated and cluttered castle described by Kafka, and the message may come out of it as free and joyous as when the messenger began his run, " he said.

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Infochimps, already providing a cloud-based platform for data-science-as-a-service, announced the integration of Storm and Kafka.

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