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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.
Confluent Is Now Certified Ready on AWS Outposts
Are you looking for a way to run AWS services on premises in your own datacenter? I am excited to share today that we have completed validation of support for […]
Implementing Message Prioritization in Apache Kafka
Users of messaging technologies such as JMS and AMQP often use message prioritization so that messages can be processed in a different order based on their importance. It doesn’t take […]
Deploying Confluent Operator on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform on AWS
Confluent Operator allows you to deploy and manage Confluent Platform as a cloud-native, stateful container application on Kubernetes and OpenShift. The automation provided by Kubernetes, Operator, and Helm greatly simplifies […]
Enabling the Deployment of Event-Driven Architectures Everywhere Using Microsoft Azure and Confluent Cloud
Hybrid cloud architecture and accelerated cloud migrations are becoming the norm rather than the exception, as our increasingly digital world introduces certain challenges along the way, including modernizing existing application/architecture, […]
Creating a Serverless Environment for Testing Your Apache Kafka Applications
If you are taking your first steps with Apache Kafka®, looking at a test environment for your client application, or building a Kafka demo, there are two “easy button” paths […]
An Overview of Confluent Cloud Security Controls
Whether you are a developer working on a cool new real-time application or an architect formulating the plan to reap the benefits of event streaming for the organisation, the subject […]
Project Metamorphosis Month 5: Global Event Streaming in Confluent Cloud
This is the fifth month of Project Metamorphosis: an initiative that addresses the manual toil of running Apache Kafka® by bringing the best characteristics of modern cloud-native data systems to […]
Benchmarking Apache Pulsar, Kafka, and RabbitMQ
Apache Kafka® is one of the most popular event streaming systems. There are many ways to compare systems in this space, but one thing everyone cares about is performance. Kafka […]
How Bolt Has Adopted Change Data Capture with Confluent Platform
This article describes why Bolt, the leading European on-demand transportation platform that operates across ride-hailing, food delivery, and e-mobility sectors, has journeyed toward adopting change data capture (CDC). Adopting CDC […]
Testing Kafka Streams – A Deep Dive
Tools for automated testing of Kafka Streams applications have been available to developers ever since the technology’s genesis. Although these tools are very useful in practice, this blog post will […]
Multi-Threaded Message Consumption with the Apache Kafka Consumer
Multithreading is “the ability of a central processing unit (CPU) (or a single core in a multi-core processor) to provide multiple threads of execution concurrently, supported by the operating system.” […]
The Curious Incident of the State Store in Recovery in ksqlDB
When operating cloud infrastructure, “time is money” is more than a cliché—it is interpreted literally as every processing second stacks up on the monthly bill. ksqlDB strives to reduce these […]
Streaming Heterogeneous Databases with Kafka Connect – The Easy Way
Building a Cloud ETL Pipeline on Confluent Cloud shows you how to build and deploy a data pipeline entirely in the cloud. However, not all databases can be in the […]
What’s New in Apache Kafka 2.6
On behalf of the Apache Kafka® community, it is my pleasure to announce the release of Apache Kafka 2.6.0. This another exciting release with many new features and improvements. We’ll […]