Happy 2017! Wishing you a wonderful year full of fast and scalable data streams. Many things have happened since we last shared the state of Apache Kafka® and the streams […]
If you were to stumble upon the whole microservices thing, without any prior context, you’d be forgiven for thinking it a little strange. Taking an application and splitting it into fragments, […]
One of the most common pain points we hear is around managing the flow and placement of data between datacenters. Almost every Apache Kafka user eventually ends up with clusters […]
This month saw the proposal of a few KIPs which will have a big impact on Apache Kafka’s semantics as well as Kafka’s operability. KIP-95 : Incremental Batch Processing for […]
This year, we were pleased to host the inaugural Kafka Summit, the first global summit for the Apache Kafka community. Kafka Summit 2016 contributed valuable content to help Kafka users […]
Confluent and Microsoft are pleased to announce the successful integration of Confluent Platform into Microsoft’s Azure Marketplace. Users can now rapidly deploy a complete Confluent Platform cluster with the click […]
Today, we are excited to announce the release of Confluent 3.1, the only stream processing platform built entirely on Apache Kafka. At Confluent, our vision is to not only ship […]
Last month the Apache Kafka community released version 0.10.1.0, the announcement blog contains a good description of new features and major improvements. In other exciting news, the PMC for Apache […]
If you are using Apache Kafka from a language other than Java one of the first questions you probably have is something like, “Why are there two (or five!) clients […]
This post was co-written with Damian Guy, Engineer at Confluent, Michael Noll, Product Manager at Confluent and Neha Narkhede, CTO and Co-Founder at Confluent. We are excited to announce Interactive […]
