Technology

Classic relational database management systems (RDBMS) distribute and organize data in a relatively static storage layer. When queries are requested, they compute on the stored data and then return results […]

SQL has proven to be an invaluable asset for most software engineers building software applications. Yet, the world as we know it has changed dramatically since SQL was created in […]

What will the next important category of databases look like? For decades, relational databases were the undisputed home of data. They powered everything: from websites to analytics, from customer data […]

At the recent Kafka Summit, Confluent announced the general availability of Stream Governance–the industry’s only governance suite for data in motion. Offered as a fully managed cloud solution, it delivers […]

Kafka Streams is an abstraction over Apache Kafka® producers and consumers that lets you forget about low-level details and focus on processing your Kafka data. You could of course write […]

How do you continuously process half a terabyte of data in real time? That’s the exact question we had to answer. Leadnomics is a digital marketing company that helps companies […]

Extensive out-of-the-box functionality, a large user community, and up-to-date, cloud-native features make Spring and its libraries a strong option for anchoring your Apache Kafka® and Confluent Cloud based microservices architecture. […]

Many Oracle Database customers currently still leverage Oracle 12c or 18c in their production environments, with some even using Oracle 11g. Most of these customers have moved to 19c or […]

Machine learning on real-time data is a powerful combination because you gain direct insights into your data, can make powerful decisions, and consequently improve your business processes and outcomes. It […]

Data silos across an organization are common, with valuable business insights waiting to be uncovered. This is why at Confluent we built a portfolio of fully managed connectors to enable […]

Today, an organization’s strategic objective is to deliver innovations for a connected life and to improve the quality of life worldwide. With connected devices comes data, and with data comes […]

The distributed architecture of Apache Kafka® can cause the operational burden of managing it to quickly become a limiting factor for adoption and developer agility. For this reason, it is […]

We’re pleased to announce ksqlDB 0.21.0! This release includes a major upgrade to ksqlDB’s foreign-key joins, the new data type BYTES, and a new ARRAY_CONCAT function. All of these features […]

I’m pleased to announce the release of Apache Kafka 3.0 on behalf of the Apache Kafka® community. Apache Kafka 3.0 is a major release in more ways than one. Apache […]