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Go from zero to production on Apache Kafka® without talking to sales reps or building infrastructure Apache Kafka is the standard for event-driven applications. But it’s not without its challenges, […]

Robust data governance support through Schema Validation on write is now supported in Confluent Platform 5.4. Schema Validation enables the broker to verify that data produced to an Apache Kafka® […]

In the early days, many companies simply used Apache Kafka® for data ingestion into Hadoop or another data lake. However, Apache Kafka is more than just messaging. The significant difference […]

There is a coming and a going / A parting and often no—meeting again. —Franz Kafka, 1897 Load balancing and scheduling are at the heart of every distributed system, and […]

As a distributed system for collecting, storing, and processing data at scale, Apache Kafka® comes with its own deployment complexities. Luckily for on-premises scenarios, a myriad of deployment options are […]

Running a single Apache Kafka® cluster across multiple datacenters (DCs) is a common, yet somewhat taboo architecture. This architecture, referred to as a stretch cluster, provides several operational benefits and […]

First, what is event sourcing? Here’s an example. Consider your bank account: viewing it online, the first thing you notice is often the current balance. How many of us drill […]

TL;DR Following on from How to Work with Apache Kafka in Your Spring Boot Application, which shows how to get started with Spring Boot and Apache Kafka®, here I will […]

We know that Apache Kafka® is great when you’re dealing with streams, allowing you to conveniently look at streams as tables. Stream processing engines like ksqlDB furthermore give you the […]

We are excited to announce the release of Confluent Cloud Schema Registry in general availability (GA), available in Confluent Cloud, our fully managed event streaming service based on Apache Kafka®. […]

Traditional relational database systems are ubiquitous in software systems. They are surrounded by a strong ecosystem of tools, such as object-relational mappers and schema migration helpers. Relational databases also provide […]

When it comes to writing a connector, there are two things you need to know how to do: how to write the code itself, and helping the world know about […]

With the release of Apache Kafka® 2.3 and Confluent Platform 5.3 came several substantial improvements to the already awesome Kafka Connect. Not sure what Kafka Connect is or need convincing […]

Compliance requirements often dictate that services should not store secrets as cleartext in files. These secrets may include passwords, such as the values for ssl.key.password, ssl.keystore.password, and ssl.truststore.password configuration parameters […]