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Apache Kafka
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.
Log Compaction | Highlights in the Apache Kafka and Stream Processing Community | August 2016
It is August already, and this marks exactly one year of monthly “Log Compaction” blog posts – summarizing news from the very active Apache Kafka and stream processing community. Hope […]
Log Compaction | Highlights in the Apache Kafka and Stream Processing Community | July 2016
Here comes the July 2016 edition of Log Compaction, a monthly digest of highlights in the Apache Kafka and stream processing community. Want to share some exciting news on this […]
Building a Streaming Analytics Stack with Apache Kafka and Druid
One popular trend in the data world recently is the rise of stream analytics. Organizations are increasingly striving to build solutions that can provide immediate access to key business intelligence insights through real-time data exploration...
Kafka Connect Sink for PostgreSQL from JustOne Database
Introducing a Kafka Sink Connector for PostgreSQL from JustOne Database, Inc. JustOne Database is great at providing agile analytics against streaming data and Confluent is an ideal complementary platform for delivering those messages...
Log Compaction | Highlights in the Apache Kafka and Stream Processing Community | June 2016
After months of testing efforts and seven voting rounds, Apache Kafka 0.10.0 and the corresponding Confluent Platform 3.0 have been finally released, cheers!
Log Compaction | Kafka Summit Edition | May 2016
Last week, Confluent hosted Kafka Summit, the first ever conference to focus on Apache Kafka and stream processing. It was exciting to see the stream processing community coming together in […]
Deploying Apache Kafka on AWS Elastic Block Store (EBS)
Apache Kafka is designed to be highly performant, reliable, scalable, and fault tolerant. At the same time, the performance and reliability of a Kafka cluster is highly dependent on the […]
Log Compaction | Highlights in the Apache Kafka and Stream Processing Community | April 2016
The Apache Kafka community was crazy-busy last month. We released a technical preview of Kafka Streams and then voted on a release plan for Kafka 0.10.0. We accelerated the discussion […]
Log Compaction | Highlights in the Kafka and Stream Processing Community | March 2016
It was another productive month in the Apache Kafka community. Many of the KIPs that were under active discussion in the last Log Compaction were implemented, reviewed, and merged into […]
Announcing Kafka Connect: Building large-scale low-latency data pipelines
For a long time, a substantial portion of data processing that companies did ran as big batch jobs — CSV files dumped out of databases, log files collected at the […]
Log Compaction | Highlights in the Kafka and Stream Processing Community | February 2016
Welcome to the February 2016 edition of Log Compaction, a monthly digest of highlights in the Apache Kafka and stream processing community. Got a newsworthy item? Let us know.
Introducing the Kafka Consumer: Getting Started with the New Apache Kafka 0.9 Consumer Client
When Apache Kafka® was originally created, it shipped with a Scala producer and consumer client. Over time we came to realize many of the limitations of these APIs. For example, […]
290 Reasons to Upgrade to Apache Kafka 0.9.0.0
When we released Apache Kafka 0.9.0.0, we talked about all of the big new features we added: the new consumer, Kafka Connect, security features, and much more. What we didn’t […]
Log Compaction | Highlights in the Kafka and Stream Processing Community | January 2016
Happy 2016! Wishing you a wonderful, highly scalable, and very reliable year. Log Compaction is a monthly digest of highlights in the Apache Kafka and stream processing community. Got a newsworthy item? Let us […]