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Twitter, one of the most popular social media platforms today, is well known for its ever-changing environment—user behaviors evolve quickly; trends are dynamic and versatile; and special and emergent events

Tools for automated testing of Kafka Streams applications have been available to developers ever since the technology’s genesis. Although these tools are very useful in practice, this blog post will

When operating cloud infrastructure, “time is money” is more than a cliché—it is interpreted literally as every processing second stacks up on the monthly bill. ksqlDB strives to reduce these

We’re pleased to announce ksqlDB 0.11.0, which takes a big step forward toward improved production stability. This is becoming increasingly important as companies like Bolt and PushOwl use ksqlDB for

ksqlDB 0.10 includes significant changes and improvements to how keys are handled. This is part of a series of enhancements that began with support for non-VARCHAR keys and will ultimately

This blog post applies to ksqlDB version 0.8.1 and later. Keeping a datacenter up and running is no walk in the park. It’s a job that involves mind-boggling amounts of

While preparing for the launch of Confluent Cloud ksqlDB, the ksqlDB Team built a system of metrics and monitoring that enabled insight into the experience of operating ksqlDB, the associated

We’re excited to announce the release of ksqlDB 0.10.0, available now in the standalone distribution and on Confluent Cloud! This version includes a first-class Java client, improved Apache Kafka® key

More than ever before, people demand immediacy in every aspect of their lives. Expectations for how we shop, bank, and commute have completely evolved over the last decade. When you

The rise of IoT devices means that we have to collect, process, and analyze orders of magnitude more data than ever before. As sensors and devices become ever more ubiquitous,