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Queues for Apache Kafka® Is Here: Your Guide to Getting Started in Confluent
Confluent announces the General Availability of Queues for Kafka on Confluent Cloud and Confluent Platform with Apache Kafka 4.2. This production-ready feature brings native queue semantics to Kafka through KIP-932, enabling organizations to consolidate streaming and queuing infrastructure while...
AI Tools for Builders — Confluent's MCP Server & Agent Skills
Confluent's AI developer tools are now GA: an open-source local MCP server, a managed MCP server, and Agent Skills. Together they give AI coding assistants direct access to your streaming platform — the tools to act on it and the domain knowledge to build correctly.
New in Confluent Intelligence: Real-Time Context Engine Upgrade, New Model Support, ML Functions, and More
Explore new Confluent Intelligence features: enhanced querying with Real-Time Context Engine, PII detection, sentiment analysis, and support for TimesFM, Anthropic, and Fireworks AI models.
Stable, Secure Apache Kafka as a Service – A Cloud Provider’s Tale
Running fully managed Apache Kafka® as a service brings many responsibilities that leading cloud providers hide well. There is a reason why cloud services are so popular right now— companies realize […]
Real-Time Data Replication with ksqlDB
Data can originate in a number of different sources—transactional databases, mobile applications, external integrations, one-time scripts, etc.—but eventually it has to be synchronized to a central data warehouse for analysis […]
How to Make Your Open Source Apache Kafka Connector Available on Confluent Hub
Do you have data you need to get into or out of Apache Kafka®? Kafka connectors are perfect for this. There are many connectors out there, usually for well-known and […]
ksqlDB: The Missing Link Between Real-Time Data and Big Data Streaming
Is event streaming or batch processing more efficient in data processing? Is an IoT system the same as a data analytics system, and a fast data system the same as […]
Building Confluent Cloud – Here’s What We’ve Learned
In July 2017, Confluent launched a private preview of what would later be known as Confluent Cloud. This platform as a service product has grown rapidly; less than three years […]
Announcing ksqlDB 0.8.0
The latest ksqlDB release introduces long-awaited features such as tunable retention and grace period for windowed aggregates, new built-in functions including LATEST_BY_OFFSET, a peek at the new server API under […]
Building a Cloud ETL Pipeline on Confluent Cloud
As enterprises move more and more of their applications to the cloud, they are also moving their on-prem ETL pipelines to the cloud, as well as building new ones. There […]
15 Things Every Apache Kafka Engineer Should Know About Confluent Replicator
Single-cluster deployments of Apache Kafka® are rare. Most medium to large deployments employ more than one Kafka cluster, and even the smallest use cases include development, testing, and production clusters. […]
Confluent’s Commitment to Our Customers, Employees, and Community Amid COVID-19 (Coronavirus)
As the impact of COVID-19 (coronavirus) continues to spread, our top priority is the health and well-being of our customers, employees, and community. We are acutely aware that these are […]
Sharpening your Stream Processing Skills with Kafka Tutorials
Event stream processing solves many business challenges, from big data ingestion and data integration, to real-time data processing and IoT. It gives you the ability to analyze big data streams […]
Kafka Summit London 2020 Update
Given the growing concern and global impact of COVID-19 (better known as the coronavirus), we’ve made the decision to cancel the upcoming Kafka Summit London. While this decision was incredibly […]
Women in Tech: Growing Business and Shaping Culture at Confluent
Every year on March 8th, Confluent is proud to celebrate International Women’s Day, a global holiday dedicated to honoring the accomplishments of women and advocating for gender equality around the […]
Kafka Connect Elasticsearch Connector in Action
The Elasticsearch sink connector helps you integrate Apache Kafka® and Elasticsearch with minimum effort. You can take data you’ve stored in Kafka and stream it into Elasticsearch to then be […]
Mock APIs vs. Real Backends – Getting the Best of Both Worlds
When building API-driven web applications, there is one key metric that engineering teams should minimize: the blocked factor. The blocked factor measures how much time developers spend in the following […]