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Queues for Apache Kafka® Is Here: Your Guide to Getting Started in Confluent
Confluent announces the General Availability of Queues for Kafka on Confluent Cloud and Confluent Platform with Apache Kafka 4.2. This production-ready feature brings native queue semantics to Kafka through KIP-932, enabling organizations to consolidate streaming and queuing infrastructure while...
AI Tools for Builders — Confluent's MCP Server & Agent Skills
Confluent's AI developer tools are now GA: an open-source local MCP server, a managed MCP server, and Agent Skills. Together they give AI coding assistants direct access to your streaming platform — the tools to act on it and the domain knowledge to build correctly.
New in Confluent Intelligence: Real-Time Context Engine Upgrade, New Model Support, ML Functions, and More
Explore new Confluent Intelligence features: enhanced querying with Real-Time Context Engine, PII detection, sentiment analysis, and support for TimesFM, Anthropic, and Fireworks AI models.
Project Metamorphosis Month 7: Reliable Event Streaming with Confluent Cloud and Proactive Support
The rise of the cloud introduced a focus on rapid iteration and agility that is founded on specialization. If you are an application developer, you know your applications better than […]
How to Choose Between Strict and Dynamic Schemas
Event modeling has always been a pain point in organizations. From figuring out the standard format of your schemas, processing said data models effectively, and finally testing before you deploy […]
What’s New in Confluent Cloud Security
Note: Please see the blog post Introducing Cluster RBAC, Audit Logs, and BYOK for Enterprise-Grade Security for the latest updates.
Announcing Pull Queries in Preview in Confluent Cloud ksqlDB
“Persistent” queries have historically formed the basis of ksqlDB applications, which continuously transform, enrich, aggregate, materialize, and join your Apache Kafka® data using a familiar SQL interface. ksqlDB continuously executes […]
Building Streaming Data Architectures with Qlik Replicate and Apache Kafka
A fundamental challenge with today’s “data explosion” is finding the best answer to the question, “So where do I put my data?” while avoiding the longer-term problem of data warehouses, […]
How to Get Your Organization to Appreciate Apache Kafka
If you want to enable your organization to leverage the full value of event-driven architectures, it is not enough to just integrate Apache Kafka® and wait for people to join […]
Preparing Your Clients and Tools for KIP-500: ZooKeeper Removal from Apache Kafka
As described in the blog post Apache Kafka® Needs No Keeper: Removing the Apache ZooKeeper Dependency, when KIP-500 lands next year, Apache Kafka will replace its usage of Apache ZooKeeper […]
Intrusion Detection with ksqlDB
Apache Kafka® is a distributed real-time processing platform that allows for the ingestion of huge volumes of data. ksqlDB is part of the Kafka ecosystem and offers a SQL-like language […]
Bounding ksqlDB Memory Usage
It’s important to be able to limit memory consumption of a running service. Use too much, and your application will crash and need to restart. If this happens too often, […]
Lessons Learned from Evolving a Risk Management Platform to Event Streaming
Every organization that exposes its services online is subject to the interest of malicious actors. The ongoing struggle with botnets, crawlers, script kiddies, and bounty hunters is challenging and requires […]
How Krake Makes Floating Workloads on Confluent Platform
Organizations today are moving their data and their data processing workloads to the cloud, and often into multiple clouds. Hybrid cloud solutions, cloud-native application architectures, and event streaming systems—especially in […]
Top 5 Things Every Apache Kafka Developer Should Know
Apache Kafka® is an event streaming platform used by more than 30% of the Fortune 500 today. There are numerous features of Kafka that make it the de-facto standard for […]
Cloud-Like Flexibility and Infinite Storage with Confluent Tiered Storage and FlashBlade from Pure Storage
With the release of Confluent Platform 6.0, we officially made Tiered Storage generally available. At launch, we supported two major cloud-specific object stores: Amazon S3 and Google Cloud Storage. Today, […]
How Real-Time Materialized Views Work with ksqlDB, Animated
All around the world, companies are asking the same question: What is happening right now? We are inundated with pieces of data that have a fragment of the answer. But […]