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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.
Event Driven 2.0
In the future, data will be as automated and self-service as infrastructure is today. You’ll open a console that lists the data available in your company; define the pieces you […]
KSQL Recipes Available Now in the Stream Processing Cookbook
For those of you who are hungry for more stream processing, we are pleased to share the recent release of Confluent’s Stream Processing Cookbook, which features short and tasteful KSQL […]
Troubleshooting KSQL – Part 2: What’s Happening Under the Covers?
Previously in part 1, we saw how to troubleshoot one of the most common issues that people have with KSQL—queries that don’t return data even though data is expected. Here, […]
Is Event Streaming the New Big Thing for Finance?
While Silicon Valley is always awash with new technology buzzwords, one that has become increasingly dominant in recent years is stream processing: a type of software designed to transport, process […]
Troubleshooting KSQL – Part 1: Why Isn’t My KSQL Query Returning Data?
KSQL is the powerful SQL streaming engine for Apache Kafka®. Using SQL statements, you can build powerful stream processing applications. In this article, we’ll see how to troubleshoot some of […]
Real-Time Presence Detection at Scale with Apache Kafka on AWS
Zenreach provides a platform that leverages Wi-Fi and enables merchants to better understand and engage with their customers. Most of our product features depend on one basic building block: real-time […]
The State of Streams – A European Adventure
I have good news to share! For the first time, this October Confluent will bring to Europe two events dedicated to streaming technology: Confluent Streaming Event in Munich and Confluent […]
The Changing Face of ETL
The way in which we handle data and build applications is changing. Technology and development practices have evolved to a point where building systems in isolated silos is somewhat impractical, […]
Hands on: Building a Streaming Application with KSQL
In this blog post, we show you how to build a demo streaming application with KSQL, the streaming SQL engine for Apache Kafka®. This application continuously computes, in real time, […]
Streams and Tables: Two Sides of the Same Coin
We are happy to announce that our paper Streams and Tables: Two Sides of the Same Coin is published and available for free download. The paper was presented at the […]
Data Wrangling with Apache Kafka and KSQL
KSQL, the SQL streaming engine for Apache Kafka®, puts the power of stream processing into the hands of anyone who knows SQL. It’s fun to use for exploring data in […]
Putting the Power of Apache Kafka into the Hands of Data Scientists
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How to Build a UDF and/or UDAF in ksqlDB 5.0
ksqlDB is the event streaming database purpose-built for stream processing applications that enables real-time data processing against Apache Kafka®. ksqlDB makes it easy to read, write and process streaming data […]
Kafka Streams in Action
Confluent’s own Bill Bejeck has recently completed Kafka Streams in Action, a book about building real-time applications and microservices with the Kafka Streams API. The book is scheduled to be available […]