Technology

The transition from a passive event stream to an active component like a workflow engine is very interesting. It raises a lot of questions about idempotency, scalability, and the capability […]

Updating a fundamental paradigm in your React app can be as easy as search and replace, or at other times, as difficult as convincing your entire frontend engineering to buy […]

Morgan Stanley uses Apache Kafka® to publish market data to internal clients and to persist it for replay purposes. We started out using librdkafka’s C++ API, which maintains C++98 compatibility. […]

We’re happy to announce that Confluent Cloud, our cloud-native service for Apache Kafka®, now supports Azure Private Link for secure network connectivity, in addition to the existing Azure Virtual Network […]

At the heart of Apache Kafka® sits the log—a simple data structure that uses sequential operations that work symbiotically with the underlying hardware. Efficient disk buffering and CPU cache usage,...

Self-managing a highly scalable distributed system with Apache Kafka® at its core is not an easy feat. That’s why operators prefer tooling such as Confluent Control Center for administering and […]

I previously showed how to install and set up Apache Kafka® on Windows in minutes by using the Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL 2). From there, it’s only a […]

Self-managing a distributed system like Apache Kafka®, along with building and operating Kafka connectors, is complex and resource intensive. It requires significant Kafka skills and expertise in the development and […]

LiveStreams is a YouTube show about Confluent, real-time data streaming, and related technologies that help you maximize data in motion on any cloud. Every episode of LiveStreams will teach you […]

Building cross-platform solutions enables organizations to leverage technology driven by real-time data and enabled with both highly available services and low-latency databases hosted on Microsoft Azure. Azure Cosmos DB is […]

In order for a technology like Confluent Cloud to make it easy to set data in motion, many different software systems are required to interact with each other using API […]

At Funding Circle, we rely heavily on Kafka as the main piece of infrastructure to enable our event-driven-based microservices architecture. There are numerous organizational benefits of microservices, however a key […]

Apache Kafka ships with Kafka Streams, a powerful yet lightweight client library for Java and Scala to implement highly scalable and elastic applications and microservices that process and analyze data […]

Real-time analytics has become the need of the hour for modern internet companies. The ability to derive internal insights around business metrics, user growth and adoption as well as security […]