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Apache Kafka
Introducing Confluent Private Cloud: Cloud-Level Agility for Your Private Infrastructure
Confluent Private Cloud (CPC) is a new software package that extends Confluent’s cloud-native innovations to your private infrastructure. CPC offers an enhanced broker with up to 10x higher throughput and a new Gateway that provides network isolation and central policy enforcement without client...
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...
New in Confluent Intelligence: A2A, Multivariate Anomaly Detection, Vector Search for Cosmos DB, Amazon S3 Vectors, and More
Explore new Confluent Intelligence features: A2A integration, multivariate anomaly detection, vector search for Cosmos DB and S3 Vectors, Private Link, and MCP support.
Analysing Changes with Debezium and Kafka Streams
Change Data Capture (CDC) is an excellent way to introduce streaming analytics into your existing database, and using Debezium enables you to send your change data through Apache Kafka®. Although […]
Improved Robustness and Usability of Exactly-Once Semantics in Apache Kafka
This blog post talks about the recent improvements on exactly-once semantics (EOS) to make it simpler to use and more resilient. EOS was first released in Apache Kafka® 0.11 and […]
Data Privacy, Security, and Compliance for Apache Kafka
Why data privacy for Apache Kafka®? As companies seek to leverage all forms of data for competitive advantage, there is a growing regulatory and reputational risk that calls for the […]
Spring for Apache Kafka – Beyond the Basics: Can Your Kafka Consumers Handle a Poison Pill?
You know the fundamentals of Apache Kafka®. You are a Spring Boot developer working with Apache Kafka or Confluent Cloud. You have chosen Spring for Apache Kafka for your integration. […]
The Cost of Apache Kafka: An Engineer's Guide to DIY Kafka Pricing
When I have a small software project that I want to share with the world, I don’t write my own version control system with a web UI. I don’t even […]
My Python/Java/Spring/Go/Whatever Client Won’t Connect to My Apache Kafka Cluster in Docker/AWS/My Brother’s Laptop. Please Help!
When a client wants to send or receive a message from Apache Kafka®, there are two types of connection that must succeed: The initial connection to a broker (the […]
Learning All About Wi-Fi Data with Apache Kafka and Friends
Recently, I’ve been looking at what’s possible with streams of Wi-Fi packet capture (pcap) data. I was prompted after initially setting up my Raspberry Pi to capture pcap data and […]
Apache Kafka Needs No Keeper: Removing the Apache ZooKeeper Dependency
Currently, Apache Kafka® uses Apache ZooKeeper™ to store its metadata. Data such as the location of partitions and the configuration of topics are stored outside of Kafka itself, in a […]
Webify Event Streams Using the Kafka Connect HTTP Sink Connector
The goal of this post is to illustrate PUSH to web from Apache Kafka® with a hands-on example. Our business users are always wanting their data faster so they can […]
What’s New in Apache Kafka 2.5
On behalf of the Apache Kafka® community, it is my pleasure to announce the release of Apache Kafka 2.5.0. The community has created another exciting release. We are making progress […]
How to Make Your Open Source Apache Kafka Connector Available on Confluent Hub
Do you have data you need to get into or out of Apache Kafka®? Kafka connectors are perfect for this. There are many connectors out there, usually for well-known and […]
Kafka Connect Elasticsearch Connector in Action
The Elasticsearch sink connector helps you integrate Apache Kafka® and Elasticsearch with minimum effort. You can take data you’ve stored in Kafka and stream it into Elasticsearch to then be […]
Introducing Confluent Developer
Today, I am pleased to announce the launch of Confluent Developer, the one and only portal for everything you need to get started with Apache Kafka®, Confluent Platform, and Confluent […]
99th Percentile Latency at Scale with Apache Kafka
Fraud detection, payment systems, and stock trading platforms are only a few of many Apache Kafka® use cases that require both fast and predictable delivery of data. For example, detecting […]