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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.
Featuring Apache Kafka in the Netflix Studio and Finance World
Netflix spent an estimated $15 billion to produce world-class original content in 2019. When stakes are so high, it is paramount to enable our business with critical insights that help […]
Streams and Tables in Apache Kafka: Elasticity, Fault Tolerance, and Other Advanced Concepts
Now that we’ve learned about the processing layer of Apache Kafka® by looking at streams and tables, as well as the architecture of distributed processing with the Kafka Streams API […]
Streams and Tables in Apache Kafka: Processing Fundamentals with Kafka Streams and ksqlDB
Part 2 of this series discussed in detail the storage layer of Apache Kafka: topics, partitions, and brokers, along with storage formats and event partitioning. Now that we have this […]
Streams and Tables in Apache Kafka: Topics, Partitions, and Storage Fundamentals
Part 1 of this series discussed the basic elements of an event streaming platform: events, streams, and tables. We also introduced the stream-table duality and learned why it is a […]
Streams and Tables in Apache Kafka: A Primer
This four-part series explores the core fundamentals of Kafka’s storage and processing layers and how they interrelate. In this first part, we begin with an overview of events, streams, tables, […]
Pipeline to the Cloud – Streaming On-Premises Data for Cloud Analytics
This article shows how you can offload data from on-premises transactional (OLTP) databases to cloud-based datastores, including Snowflake and Amazon S3 with Athena. I’m also going to take the opportunity […]
Apache Kafka as a Service with Confluent Cloud Now Available on GCP Marketplace
Following Google’s announcement to provide leading open source services with a cloud-native experience by partnering with companies like Confluent, we are delighted to share that Confluent Cloud is now available […]
Celebrating 1,000 Employees and Looking Towards the Path Ahead
During the holiday season, it’s a particularly relevant time to pause, reflect, and celebrate, both the days past and those ahead. Here at Confluent, it’s a noticeably nostalgic moment, given […]
Exploring ksqlDB with Twitter Data
When KSQL was released, my first blog post about it showed how to use KSQL with Twitter data. Two years later, its successor ksqlDB was born, which we announced this […]
The Easiest Way to Install Apache Kafka and Confluent Platform – Using Ansible
With Confluent Platform 5.3, we are actively embracing the rising DevOps movement by introducing CP-Ansible, our very own open source Ansible playbooks for deployment of Apache Kafka® and the Confluent […]
Apache Kafka Producer Improvements with the Sticky Partitioner
The amount of time it takes for a message to move through a system plays a big role in the performance of distributed systems like Apache Kafka®. In Kafka, the […]
Testing Kafka Streams Using TestInputTopic and TestOutputTopic
As a test class that allows you to test Kafka Streams logic, TopologyTestDriver is a lot faster than utilizing EmbeddedSingleNodeKafkaCluster and makes it possible to simulate different timing scenarios. Not […]
What’s New in Apache Kafka 2.4
On behalf of the Apache Kafka® community, it is my pleasure to announce the release of Apache Kafka 2.4.0. This release includes a number of key new features and improvements […]
Transferring Avro Schemas Across Schema Registries with Kafka Connect
Although starting out with one Confluent Schema Registry deployment per development environment is straightforward, over time, a company may scale and begin migrating data to a cloud environment (such as […]