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When it comes to writing a connector, there are two things you need to know how to do: how to write the code itself, and helping the world know about […]

With the release of Apache Kafka® 2.3 and Confluent Platform 5.3 came several substantial improvements to the already awesome Kafka Connect. Not sure what Kafka Connect is or need convincing […]

Together, MongoDB and Apache Kafka® make up the heart of many modern data architectures today. Integrating Kafka with external systems like MongoDB is best done though the use of Kafka […]

This question comes up on Stack Overflow and such places a lot, so here’s something to try and help. tl;dr: You need to set advertised.listeners (or KAFKA_ADVERTISED_LISTENERS if you’re using […]

Software projects of all sizes and complexities have a common challenge: building a scalable solution for search. Who has never seen an application use RDBMS SQL statements to run searches? […]

The internet is not just connecting people around the world. Through the Internet of Things (IoT), it is also connecting humans to the machines all around us and directly connecting […]

At Confluent, we see many of our customers are on AWS, and we’ve noticed that Amazon S3 plays a particularly significant role in AWS-based architectures. Unless a use case actively […]

Kafka Connect is part of Apache Kafka® and is a powerful framework for building streaming pipelines between Kafka and other technologies. It can be used for streaming data into Kafka […]

Only a little more than one month after the first release, we are happy to announce another milestone for our Kafka integration. Today, you can grab the Kafka Connect Neo4j […]

One of the most common integrations that people want to do with Apache Kafka® is getting data in from a database. That is because relational databases are a rich source […]