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Data Products, Data Contracts, and Change Data Capture
Change data capture is a popular method to connect database tables to data streams, but it comes with drawbacks. The next evolution of the CDC pattern, first-class data products, provide resilient pipelines that support both real-time and batch processing while isolating upstream systems...
Unlock Cost Savings with Freight Clusters–Now in General Availability
Confluent Cloud Freight clusters are now Generally Available on AWS. In this blog, learn how Freight clusters can save you up to 90% at GBps+ scale.
Unleash Real-Time Agentic AI: Introducing Streaming Agents on Confluent Cloud
Build event-driven agents on Apache Flink® with Streaming Agents on Confluent Cloud—fresh context, MCP tool calling, real-time embeddings, and enterprise governance.
Getting Started with Apache Kafka and Kubernetes
Enabling everyone to run Apache Kafka® on Kubernetes is an important part of our mission to put a streaming platform at the heart of every company. This is why we look […]
Decoupling Systems with Apache Kafka, Schema Registry and Avro
As your Apache Kafka® deployment starts to grow, the benefits of using a schema registry quickly become compelling. Confluent Schema Registry, which is included in the Confluent Platform, enables you […]
Welcoming the Distributed Masonry Team to Confluent
Streaming platforms force a fundamental rethink of the way companies treat the data that describes and drives their business, taking us away from the static notion of data which sits […]
Introducing Confluent Platform 5.0
We are excited to announce the release of Confluent Platform 5.0, the enterprise streaming platform built on Apache Kafka®. At Confluent, our vision is to place a streaming platform at […]
Highlights of the Kafka Summit San Francisco 2018 Agenda
Honestly, it seems like I just filed my expense report for Kafka Summit London, and now we are announcing the program for Kafka Summit San Francisco. (CONFIDENTIAL TO CONFLUENT FINANCE: […]
Ansible Playbooks for Confluent Platform
Here at Confluent, we want to see each Confluent Platform installation be successful right from the start. That means going beyond beautiful APIs and spectacular stream processing features. We want […]
Apache Kafka vs. Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) – Friends, Enemies or Frenemies?
Typically, an enterprise service bus (ESB) or other integration solutions like extract-transform-load (ETL) tools have been used to try to decouple systems. However, the sheer number of connectors, as well […]
June Preview Release: Packing Confluent Platform with the Features You Requested!
We are very excited to announce Confluent Platform June 2018 Preview. This is our most feature-packed preview release for Confluent Platform since we started doing our monthly preview releases in […]
We ❤️ syslogs: Real-time syslog processing with Apache Kafka and KSQL – Part 3: Enriching events with external data
Using KSQL, the SQL streaming engine for Apache Kafka®, it’s straightforward to build streaming data pipelines that filter, aggregate, and enrich inbound data. The data could be from numerous sources, […]
Stream Processing Made Easy With Confluent Cloud and KSQL
Confluent Cloud™ is a fully-managed streaming data service based on open-source Apache Kafka. With Confluent Cloud, developers can accelerate building mission-critical streaming applications based on a single source of truth. […]
Introducing Confluent Hub
Today we’re delighted to announce the launch of Confluent Hub. Confluent Hub is a place for the Apache Kafka and Confluent Platform community to come together and share the components […]
May Preview Release: Advancing KSQL and Schema Registry
We are very excited to announce the Confluent Platform May 2018 Preview release! The May Preview introduces powerful new capabilities for KSQL and the Schema Registry UI. Read on to […]
Analytics on Bare Metal: Xenon and Kafka Connect
The following post is a guest blog from Tushar Sudhakar Jee, Software Engineer, Levyx responsible for Kafka infrastructure. You may find this post also on Levyx’s blog. Abstract As part […]
Introducing Self-Service Apache Kafka for Developers
New Confluent Cloud and Ecosystem Expansion to Google Cloud Platform The vision for Confluent Cloud is simple. We want to provide an event streaming service to support all customers on […]