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KCP: How to Migrate to Confluent Cloud in Days, Not Weeks
Learn how to migrate to Confluent Cloud in hours using Confluent’s open source Kafka Copy Paste tool. Get an in-depth introduction to the KCP tool and a walk-through of the four steps of migrating from MSK to Confluent Cloud using the tool.
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 and AI Tools: Making Agents Native to the Stream, Expanded Model Support, New Agent Skills, and Copilot
Explore new AI features and AI tools: support for IBM Granite Time Series models and TimesFM models (EA), enhanced Real-Time Context Engine experience, new Agent Skills, Confluent Copilot
Making Apache Kafka Elastic With Apache Mesos
This post has been written in collaboration with Derrick Harris from Mesosphere and Joe Stein, a Kafka committer. For an updated version of this article, please see Apache Mesos, Apache Kafka and […]
Confluent Raises a Series B
It is my pleasure to announce that Confluent has raised a Series B funding of $24M, led by Index Ventures and joined by our Series A investor, Benchmark. Mike Volpi […]
Hands-Free Kafka Replication: A Lesson in Operational Simplicity
Building operational simplicity into distributed systems, especially for nuanced behaviors, is somewhat of an art and often best achieved after gathering production experience. Apache Kafka‘s popularity can be attributed in […]
The Value of Apache Kafka in Big Data Ecosystem
This is a repost of a recent article that I wrote for ODBMS. In the last few years, there has been significant growth in the adoption of Apache Kafka. Current […]
Confluent will be at QCon NYC next week
Some of us from Confluent will be speaking at QCon NYC next week about Apache Kafka and Confluent’s stream data platform. Here are some things to look forward to from […]
Using logs to build a solid data infrastructure (or: why dual writes are a bad idea)
This is an edited transcript of a talk I gave at the Craft Conference 2015. The video and slides are also available.
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Schema
The rise in schema-free and document-oriented databases has led some to question the value and necessity of schemas. Schemas, in particular those following the relational model, can seem too restrictive, […]
Compatibility Testing For Apache Kafka
Testing is one of the hardest parts of building reliable distributed systems. Kafka has long had a set of system tests that cover distributed operation but this is an area […]
ApacheCon 2015
I was at ApacheCon 2015 in Austin, Texas a couple of weeks ago. The following is a short summary of some of the trends that I observed at the conference. […]
Bottled Water: Real-time integration of PostgreSQL and Kafka
Summary: Confluent is starting to explore the integration of databases with event streams. As part of the first step in this exploration, Martin Kleppmann has made a new open source […]
Real-time full-text search with Luwak and Samza
This is an edited transcript of a talk given by Alan Woodward and Martin Kleppmann at FOSDEM 2015. Traditionally, search works like this: you have a large corpus of documents, […]
A Comprehensive REST Proxy for Kafka
As part of Confluent Platform 1.0 released about a month ago, we included a new Kafka REST Proxy to allow more flexibility for developers and to significantly broaden the number […]
Apache Kafka 0.8.2.1 release
The Apache Kafka community just announced the 0.8.2.1 release. This is a a bug fix release and fixes 4 critical issues reported in the 0.8.2.0 release (the full list of […]
How to Choose the Number of Topics/Partitions in a Kafka Cluster?
Note For the latest, check out the blog posts Apache Kafka® Made Simple: A First Glimpse of a Kafka Without ZooKeeper and Apache Kafka Supports 200K Partitions Per Cluster.