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The Apache Kafka® community recently convened for the Kafka Summit in London—bringing together developers, data architects, engineers, and more professionals from around the globe—to talk about all things Kafka and

Why are autonomous networks a critical part of all communication service providers’ (CSPs) infrastructure? A recurring issue for CSPs is the integration of legacy operations support services (OSS) systems. In

The Call for Papers for Current 2022: The Next Generation of Kafka Summit is in full swing, with speakers from around the data streaming world putting their best talks forward

When Willie Osborn joined Confluent three years ago, it was to spend his days thinking about growth—but not just in terms of revenue. Below, Willie explains why he believes developing

We live in exciting times, a moment rich with dramatic tech innovations and transformative, data-driven business changes. While the opportunities before us are great, so are the challenges. Big ideas

An inevitable consequence of rapid business growth is that there will be incidents: even the best, most well-planned systems will begin to fail when you expand them very quickly. The

Elasticity is one of the table stakes for a mature cloud service. Elasticity enables the addition of capacity in a cloud service as needed to meet spikes in demand, and

We are excited to bring forward yet another ksqlDB release with ksqlDB 0.26. This time we have focused on improving your experience with aggregate functions, JOINs, and schemas. We have

At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020, Instacart experienced its highest customer demand in history. Its customer-facing applications, backend systems, and business processes were all put to

People often imagine that to provide a cloud service for a piece of open source software is a simple matter of packaging up the open source and putting it in