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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.
Simplifying Apache Kafka Multi-Cluster Management Using Control Center and Cluster Registry
Most companies who have adopted event streaming are running multiple Apache Kafka® environments. For example, they may use different Kafka clusters for testing vs. production or for different use cases. […]
To Pull or to Push Your Data with Kafka Connect? That Is the Question.
Today, every company is a data company. There are many different data pipeline, integration, and ingestion tools in the market, but before you can feed your data analytics needs, data […]
Containerized Testing with Kerberos and SSH
Kerberos authentication is widely used in today’s client/server applications; however getting started with Kerberos may be a daunting task if you don’t have prior experience. Information on setting up Kerberos […]
How to Manage Secrets for Confluent with Kubernetes and HashiCorp Vault
This blog post walks through an end-to-end demo that uses the Confluent Operator to deploy Confluent Platform to Kubernetes. We will deploy a connector that watches for commits to a […]
Apache Kafka and SAP Integration with the Kafka Connect ODP Source Connector
SAP is a German multinational software corporation that develops and markets enterprise software to manage business operations and customer relations. SAP is most famous for its enterprise resource planning (ERP) […]
Lessons Learned from Running Apache Kafka at Scale at Pinterest
Apache Kafka® is at the heart of the data transportation layer at Pinterest. The amount of data that runs through Kafka has constantly grown over the years. This growth sometimes […]
Keys in ksqlDB, Unlocked
One of the most highly requested enhancements to ksqlDB is here! Apache Kafka® messages may contain data in message keys as well as message values. Until now, ksqlDB could only […]
42 Things You Can Stop Doing Once ZooKeeper Is Gone from Apache Kafka
Soon, Apache Kafka® will no longer need ZooKeeper! With KIP-500, Kafka will include its own built-in consensus layer, removing the ZooKeeper dependency altogether. The next big milestone in this effort […]
Announcing ksqlDB 0.15
We’re pleased to announce ksqlDB 0.15, our first release of 2021! This version adds rich support for message key columns and long-awaited improvement to interactive development with the command line […]
Oracle CDC Source Premium Connector is Now Generally Available
One of the most common relational database systems that connects to Apache Kafka® is Oracle, which often holds highly critical enterprise transaction workloads. While Oracle Database (DB) excels at many […]
Automatic Observer Promotion Brings Fast and Safe Multi-Datacenter Failover with Confluent Platform 6.1
Persisting data in multiple regions has become crucial for modern businesses: They need their mission-critical data to be protected from accidents and disasters. They can achieve this goal by running […]
Introducing Confluent Platform 6.1
We are pleased to announce the release of Confluent Platform 6.1. With this release, we are further simplifying management tasks for Apache Kafka® operators and providing even higher availability for […]
How to Write a Connector for Kafka Connect – Deep Dive into Configuration Handling
Kafka Connect is part of Apache Kafka®, providing streaming integration of external systems in and out of Kafka. There are a large number of existing connectors, and you can also […]
Node.js ❤️ Apache Kafka – Getting Started with KafkaJS
One of the great things about using an Apache Kafka® based architecture is that it naturally decouples systems and allows you to use the best tool for the job. While […]