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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.
Introducing the Kafka Consumer: Getting Started with the New Apache Kafka 0.9 Consumer Client
When Apache Kafka® was originally created, it shipped with a Scala producer and consumer client. Over time we came to realize many of the limitations of these APIs. For example, […]
290 Reasons to Upgrade to Apache Kafka 0.9.0.0
When we released Apache Kafka 0.9.0.0, we talked about all of the big new features we added: the new consumer, Kafka Connect, security features, and much more. What we didn’t […]
Log Compaction | Highlights in the Kafka and Stream Processing Community | January 2016
Happy 2016! Wishing you a wonderful, highly scalable, and very reliable year. Log Compaction is a monthly digest of highlights in the Apache Kafka and stream processing community. Got a newsworthy item? Let us […]
How to Build a Scalable ETL Pipeline with Kafka Connect
Apache Kafka is a high-throughput distributed message system that is being adopted by hundreds of companies to manage their real-time data. Companies use Kafka for many applications (real time stream […]
Confluent Platform 2.0 is GA!
We are very excited to announce the general availability of Confluent Platform 2.0. For organizations that want to build a streaming data pipeline around Apache Kafka, Confluent Platform is the […]
Apache Kafka 0.9 is Released
I am pleased to announce the availability of the 0.9 release of Apache Kafka. This release has been in the works for several months with contributions from the community and […]
Log Compaction | Highlights in the Kafka and Stream Processing Community | November 2015
The Apache Kafka community just concluded its busiest month ever. As we are preparing for the upcoming release of Kafka 0.9.0.0, the community worked together to close a record number […]
Apache Kafka, Purgatory, and Hierarchical Timing Wheels
Apache Kafka has a data structure called the “request purgatory”. The purgatory holds any request that hasn’t yet met its criteria to succeed but also hasn’t yet resulted in an […]
Log Compaction | Highlights in the Kafka and Stream Processing Community | October 2015
The amount of work that got done by the community in the last month is truly impressive, especially considering how many conferences took place in September. Let’s take a look at the highlights: The […]
Yes, Virginia, You Really Do Need a Schema Registry
I ran into the schema-management problem while working with my second Hadoop customer. Until then, there was one true database and the database was responsible for managing schemas and pretty […]
Confluent at Apache: Big Data Europe | Being Ready for Apache Kafka
Many of today’s most popular Big Data software projects such as Apache Hadoop and Apache Kafka are managed under the umbrella of the Apache Software Foundation. Hence a formidable way […]
Apache Kafka Hits 1.1 Trillion Messages Per Day – Joins the 4 Comma Club
I am very excited that LinkedIn’s deployment of Apache Kafka has surpassed 1.1 trillion (yes, trillion with a “t”, and 4 commas) messages per day. This is the largest deployment of Apache […]
Log Compaction | Highlights in the Kafka and Stream Processing Community | September 2015
September is the start of the fall conference season. Between Strata + Hadoop World New York and ApacheCon: Big Data Europe, there is plenty to keep us busy learning.
Distributed Consensus Reloaded: Apache ZooKeeper and Replication in Apache Kafka
This post was jointly written by Neha Narkhede, original co-creator of Apache Kafka, and Flavio Junqueira, co-creator of Apache ZooKeeper. Many distributed systems that we build and use currently rely on dependencies like […]