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When building API-driven web applications, there is one key metric that engineering teams should minimize: the blocked factor. The blocked factor measures how much time developers spend in the following

Today, I am pleased to announce the launch of Confluent Developer, the one and only portal for everything you need to get started with Apache Kafka®, Confluent Platform, and Confluent

Fraud detection, payment systems, and stock trading platforms are only a few of many Apache Kafka® use cases that require both fast and predictable delivery of data. For example, detecting

The world is changing fast, and keeping up can be hard. Companies must evolve their IT to stay modern, providing services that are more and more sophisticated to their customers.

We just released Confluent Platform 5.4, which is one of our most important releases to date in terms of the features we’ve delivered to help enterprises take Apache Kafka® and

Less than six months ago, we announced support for Microsoft Azure in Confluent Cloud, which allows developers using Azure as a public cloud to build event streaming applications with Apache

We are pleased to announce the release of ksqlDB 0.7.0. This release features highly available state, security enhancements for queries, a broadened range of language/data expressions, performance improvements, bug fixes,

We talked about how easy it is to send osquery logs to the Confluent Platform in part 1. Now, we’ll consume streams of osquery logs, detect anomalous behavior using machine

Apache Kafka® is often deployed alongside Elasticsearch to perform log exploration, metrics monitoring and alerting, data visualisation, and analytics. It is complementary to Elasticsearch but also overlaps in some ways,

Osquery (developed by Facebook) is an open source tool used to gather audit log events from an operating system (OS). What’s unique about osquery is that it uses basic SQL