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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

At Confluent, every now and then we like to take a day away from our normal sprint tasks to hack. There are a ton of benefits to hack days, including:

tl;dr 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

We are excited to announce the preview release of the fully managed MongoDB Atlas source and sink connectors in Confluent Cloud, our fully managed event streaming service based on Apache

Most organisations maintain fleets, a collection of vehicles put to use for day-to-day operations. Telcos use a variety of vehicles including cars, vans, and trucks for service, delivery, and maintenance.

The rise of IoT devices means that we have to collect, process, and analyze orders of magnitude more data than ever before. As sensors and devices become ever more ubiquitous,

This is the second of a series of posts (part 1 | part 3) that dive deep into key improvements made to ksqlDB to prepare for production availability in Confluent

Over a year ago, Confluent set out on a mission to improve user experience by empowering developers, operators, and architects with intuitive command line interfaces (CLIs) for managing their Confluent

This month, we kicked off Project Metamorphosis by introducing several Confluent features that make Apache Kafka® clusters more elastic—the first of eight foundational traits characterizing cloud-native data systems that map

For many organizations, Apache Kafka® is the backbone and source of truth for data systems across the enterprise. Protecting your event streaming platform is critical for data security and often