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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.
Putting Several Event Types in the Same Topic – Revisited
In the article Should You Put Several Event Types in the Same Kafka Topic?, Martin Kleppmann discusses when to combine several event types in the same topic and introduces new […]
Announcing the Elasticsearch Service Sink Connector for Apache Kafka in Confluent Cloud
We are excited to announce the preview release of the fully managed Elasticsearch Service Sink Connector in Confluent Cloud, our fully managed event streaming service based on Apache Kafka®. Our […]
Project Metamorphosis Month 3: Infinite Storage in Confluent Cloud for Apache Kafka
This is the third month of Project Metamorphosis, where we discuss new features in Confluent’s offerings that bring together event streams and the best characteristics of modern cloud data systems. […]
Spring for Apache Kafka – Beyond the Basics: Can Your Kafka Consumers Handle a Poison Pill?
You know the fundamentals of Apache Kafka®. You are a Spring Boot developer working with Apache Kafka or Confluent Cloud. You have chosen Spring for Apache Kafka for your integration. […]
Reducing the Total Cost of Operations for Self-Managed Apache Kafka
We kicked off Project Metamorphosis last month by announcing a set of features that make Apache Kafka® more elastic, one of the most important traits of cloud-native data systems. This […]
Announcing the Snowflake Sink Connector for Apache Kafka in Confluent Cloud
We are excited to announce the general availability release of the fully managed Snowflake sink connector in Confluent Cloud, our fully managed event streaming service based on Apache Kafka®. Our […]
Announcing ksqlDB 0.10.0
We’re excited to announce the release of ksqlDB 0.10.0, available now in the standalone distribution and on Confluent Cloud! This version includes a first-class Java client, improved Apache Kafka® key […]
Unifying Streams and State: The Seamless Path to Real Time
More than ever before, people demand immediacy in every aspect of their lives. Expectations for how we shop, bank, and commute have completely evolved over the last decade. When you […]
How Merging Companies Will Give Rise to Unified Data Streams
Company mergers are becoming more common as businesses strive to improve performance and grow market share by saving costs and eliminating competition through acquisitions. But how do business mergers relate […]
The Cost of Apache Kafka: An Engineer's Guide to DIY Kafka Pricing
When I have a small software project that I want to share with the world, I don’t write my own version control system with a web UI. I don’t even […]
Build Real-Time Observability Pipelines with Confluent Cloud and AppDynamics
Many organisations rely on commercial or open source monitoring tools to measure the performance and stability of business-critical applications. AppDynamics, Datadog, and Prometheus are widely used commercial and open source […]
Project Metamorphosis Month 2: Cost-Effective Apache Kafka for Use Cases Big and Small
In April, we kicked off Project Metamorphosis. Project Metamorphosis is an effort to bring the simplicity of best of breed cloud systems to the world of event streaming. It is […]
Scaling Apache Kafka to 10+ GB Per Second in Confluent Cloud
Apache Kafka® is the de facto standard for event streaming today. The semantics of the partitioned consumer model that Kafka pioneered have enabled scale at a level and at a […]
My Python/Java/Spring/Go/Whatever Client Won’t Connect to My Apache Kafka Cluster in Docker/AWS/My Brother’s Laptop. Please Help!
When a client wants to send or receive a message from Apache Kafka®, there are two types of connection that must succeed: The initial connection to a broker (the […]