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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.
How ksqlDB Works: Internal Architecture and Advanced Features
To effectively use ksqlDB, the streaming database for Apache Kafka®, you should of course be familiar with its features and syntax. However, a deeper understanding of what goes on underneath […]
Implement a Cross-Platform Apache Kafka Producer and Consumer with C# and .NET
Sometimes you’d like to write your own code for producing data to an Apache Kafka® topic and connecting to a Kafka cluster programmatically. Confluent provides client libraries for several different […]
Announcing ksqlDB 0.20.0
We’re pleased to announce ksqlDB 0.20.0! The 0.20 ksqlDB release includes support for the DATE and TIME data types, along with functionality for working with these types. The DATE type […]
Announcing the Confluent Q3 ’21 Release
The Confluent Q3 ‘21 release is here and packed full of new features that enable the world’s most innovative businesses to continue building what keeps them on top: real-time, mission-critical […]
Announcing the Azure Cosmos DB Sink Connector in Confluent Cloud
Today, Confluent is announcing the general availability (GA) of the fully managed Azure Cosmos DB Sink Connector within Confluent Cloud. Now, with just a few simple clicks, you can link […]
Designing and Architecting the Confluent CLI
It is often difficult enough to build one application that talks to a single middleware or backend layer; e.g., a whole team of frontend engineers may build a web application […]
The New One-Stop Shop for Learning Apache Kafka
Today, I’m very excited to announce an all-new website dedicated to Apache Kafka®, event streaming, and associated cloud technologies. The site is called Confluent Developer, and it represents a significant […]
Protecting Data Integrity in Confluent Cloud: Over 8 Trillion Messages Audited Per Day
It’s about maintaining the right data even when no one is watching. Last year, Confluent announced support for Infinite Storage, which fundamentally changes data retention in Apache Kafka® by allowing […]
From On-Prem to Cloud-Native: Multi-Tenancy in Confluent Cloud
Multi-tenancy brings cost-efficiency to infrastructure, and when done correctly, creates an economy of scale. Done incorrectly and you degrade the user experience and create maintenance nightmares for operators. This is […]
Reduce Your Data Infrastructure TCO with Confluent’s New Splunk S2S Source Premium Connector
Data is at the center of our world today, especially with the ever-increasing amount of machine-generated log data collected from applications, devices, and sensors from almost every modern technology. The […]
Speed, Scale, Storage: Our Journey from Apache Kafka to Performance in Confluent Cloud
At Confluent, we focus on the holy trinity of performance, price, and availability, with the goal of delivering a similar performance envelope for all workloads across all supported cloud providers. […]
Making Apache Kafka Serverless: Lessons From Confluent Cloud
Serverless offerings in the cloud are a favorite among software engineers—a prime example are object stores such as AWS S3. For the system designer, however, it is an engineering challenge […]
Design Considerations for Cloud-Native Data Systems
Twenty years ago, the data warehouses of choice were Oracle and Teradata. Since then, growth and innovation has shifted to the cloud, and a new generation of data systems have […]
Announcing ksqlDB 0.19.0
We’re pleased to announce ksqlDB 0.19.0! This release includes a new NULLIF function and a major upgrade to ksqlDB’s data modeling capabilities—foreign-key joins. We’re excited to share this highly requested […]