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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.
Introducing the Confluent Operator: Apache Kafka on Kubernetes Made Simple
At Confluent, our mission is to put a Streaming Platform at the heart of every digital company in the world. This means, making it easy to deploy and use Apache […]
Introducing Confluent Platform Preview Releases
Download Confluent Platform preview release Historically, Confluent delivers a new release of Confluent Platform three times per year. While this cadence meets the needs of a meaningful portion of our […]
Confluent Platform 4.1 with Production-Ready KSQL Now Available
We are pleased to announce that Confluent Platform 4.1, our enterprise streaming platform built on Apache Kafka®, is available for download today. With Confluent Platform, you get the latest in […]
We ❤ syslogs: Real-time syslog Processing with Apache Kafka and KSQL – Part 2: Event-Driven Alerting with Slack
In the previous article, we saw how syslog data can be easily streamed into Apache Kafka® and filtered in real time with KSQL. In this article, we’re going to see how […]
We ❤️ syslogs: Real-time syslog Processing with Apache Kafka and KSQL – Part 1: Filtering
Syslog is one of those ubiquitous standards on which much of modern computing runs. Built into operating systems such as Linux, it’s also commonplace in networking and IoT devices like […]
KSQL in Action: Enriching CSV Events with Data from RDBMS into AWS
Life would be simple if data lived in one place: one single solitary database to rule them all. Anything that needed to be joined to anything could be with a […]
No More Silos: How to Integrate Your Databases with Apache Kafka and CDC
One of the most frequent questions and topics that I see come up on community resources such as StackOverflow, the Confluent Platform mailing list, and the Confluent Community Slack group, […]
Event Sourcing Using Apache Kafka
Adam Warski is one of the co-founders of SoftwareMill, where he codes mainly using Scala and other interesting technologies. He is involved in open-source projects, such as sttp, MacWire, Quicklens, […]
KSQL February Release: Streaming SQL for Apache Kafka
We are pleased to announce the release of KSQL v0.5, aka the February 2018 release of KSQL. This release is focused on bug fixes and as well as performance and stability […]
Secure Stream Processing with Apache Kafka, Confluent Platform and KSQL
In this blog post, we first look at stream processing examples using KSQL that show how companies are using Apache Kafka® to grow their business and to analyze data in […]
KSQL in Action: Real-Time Streaming ETL from Oracle Transactional Data
In this post I’m going to show what streaming ETL looks like in practice. We’re replacing batch extracts with event streams, and batch transformation with in-flight transformation. But first, a […]
KSQL January release: Streaming SQL for Apache Kafka
We are pleased to announce the release of KSQL 0.4, aka the January 2018 release of KSQL. As usual, this release is a mix of new features as well as […]
Should You Put Several Event Types in the Same Kafka Topic?
If you adopt a streaming platform such as Apache Kafka, one of the most important questions to answer is: what topics are you going to use? In particular, if you […]
Apache Mesos, Apache Kafka and Kafka Streams for Highly Scalable Microservices
Apache Kafka and Apache Mesos are very well-known and successful Apache projects. A lot has happened in these projects since Confluent’s last blog post on the topic in July 2015. […]