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In the early days, many companies simply used Apache Kafka® for data ingestion into Hadoop or another data lake. However, Apache Kafka is more than just messaging. The significant difference

There is a coming and a going / A parting and often no—meeting again. —Franz Kafka, 1897 Load balancing and scheduling are at the heart of every distributed system, and

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

If you are not using fully managed Apache Kafka® in the Confluent Cloud, then this question on Kafka listener configuration comes up on Stack Overflow and such places a lot, so

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