Confluent Blog

In 2011, Marc Andressen wrote an article called Why Software is Eating the World. The central idea is that any process that can be moved into software, will be. This […]

I’m excited to announce that we’re partnering with Google Cloud to make Confluent Cloud, our fully managed offering of Apache Kafka®, available as a native offering on Google Cloud Platform […]

I’m excited to announce that Confluent has raised a $125M Series D funding round, led by Sequoia, with participation from our other major investors, Index Ventures and Benchmark. This builds […]

We’re changing the license for some of the components of Confluent Platform from Apache 2.0 to the Confluent Community License. This new license allows you to freely download, modify, and […]

2017 was an amazing year for Apache Kafka® as an open source project and for Confluent as a company. I wanted to take moment to thank all the contributors and […]

A question people often ask about Apache Kafka® is whether it is okay to use it for longer term storage. Kafka, as you might know, stores a log of records, […]

I have some exciting news to share: we’ve completed a $50 million investment led by our newest partner, Sequoia Capital and Matt Miller of Sequoia will be joining our board […]

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 […]

Most people think that what’s exciting about distributed systems is the ability to support really big applications. When you read a blog about a new distributed database, it usually talks […]

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 […]