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This post was written by guest blogger Rajiv Kurian from SignalFx. SignalFx is a member of the Confluent partner program. Rajiv is a software engineer with over five years experience building […]

I’m happy to announce that Confluent will be hosting the first Stream Data Hackathon this April 25th in San Francisco! Apache Kafka has recently introduced two new major features: Kafka […]

Important: The information in this article is outdated. With recent Kafka versions the integration between Kafka Connect and Kafka Streams as well as KSQL has become much simpler and easier. […]

The Apache Kafka community was crazy-busy last month. We released a technical preview of Kafka Streams and then voted on a release plan for Kafka 0.10.0. We accelerated the discussion […]

I’m pleased to announce the launch of Confluent University: world-class Apache Kafka training now available both onsite and at public venues. Although we’ve been offering onsite training to our customers […]

Update: Today, KSQL, the streaming SQL engine for Apache Kafka®, is also available to support various stream processing operations, such as filtering, data masking and streaming ETL. It is complementary […]

It was another productive month in the Apache Kafka community. Many of the KIPs that were under active discussion in the last Log Compaction were implemented, reviewed, and merged into […]

A few months ago, we announced the major release of Apache Kafka 0.9, which added several new features like Security, Kafka Connect, the new Java consumer and also critical bug […]

For a long time, a substantial portion of data processing that companies did ran as big batch jobs — CSV files dumped out of databases, log files collected at the […]

Welcome to the February 2016 edition of Log Compaction, a monthly digest of highlights in the Apache Kafka and stream processing community. Got a newsworthy item? Let us know.