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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
Using kafka-merge-purge to Deal with Failure in an Event-Driven System at FLYERALARM
Failures are inevitable in any system, and there are various options for mitigating them automatically. This is made possible by event-driven applications leveraging Apache Kafka® and built with fault tolerance […]
Introducing Confluent for Kubernetes
We are excited to announce that Confluent for Kubernetes is generally available! Today, we are enabling our customers to realize many of the benefits of our cloud service with the […]
Announcing the MongoDB Atlas Sink and Source Connectors in Confluent Cloud
Today, Confluent is announcing the general availability (GA) of the fully managed MongoDB Atlas Source and MongoDB Atlas Sink Connectors within Confluent Cloud. Now, with just a few simple clicks, […]
Streaming ETL with Confluent: Routing and Fan-Out of Apache Kafka Messages with ksqlDB
In the world of data engineering, data routing decisions are crucial to successful distributed system design. Some organizations choose to route data from within application code. Other teams hand off […]
6 Strategies to Survive Apache Kafka® Broker Failures & Other Outages
There is a class of applications that cannot afford to be unavailable—for example, external-facing entry points into your organization. Typically, anything your customers interact with directly cannot go down. As […]
Announcing ksqlDB 0.17.0
We’re excited to announce ksqlDB 0.17, a big release for 2021. This version adds support for managing the lifecycle of your queries from CI servers, a first-class timestamp data type, […]
Monitoring Your Event Streams: Tutorial for Observability Into Apache Kafka Clients
Why should you monitor your Apache Kafka® client applications? Apart from the usual reasons for monitoring any application, such as ensuring uptime SLAs, there are a few specific reasons for […]
What’s New in Apache Kafka 2.8
I’m proud to announce the release of Apache Kafka 2.8.0 on behalf of the Apache Kafka® community. The 2.8.0 release contains many new features and improvements. This blog post highlights […]
Event Streams Are Nothing Without Action
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 […]
Building the Confluent UI with React Hooks – Benefits and Lessons Learned
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 […]
Debuting a Modern C++ API for Apache Kafka
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. […]
Setting Up Secure Networking in Confluent with Azure Private Link
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 […]
Apache Kafka Made Simple: A First Glimpse of a Kafka Without ZooKeeper
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,...
Monitoring Your Event Streams: Integrating Confluent with Prometheus and Grafana
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 […]