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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.
Announcing ksqlDB 0.19.0
We’re pleased to announce ksqlDB 0.19.0! This release includes a new NULLIF function and a major upgrade to ksqlDB’s data modeling capabilities—foreign-key joins. We’re excited to share this highly requested […]
Crossing the Streams: The New Streaming Foreign-Key Join Feature in Kafka Streams
Companies adopt streaming data and Apache Kafka® because it provides them with real-time information about their business and customers. In practice, the challenge is that this information is spread across […]
Online, Managed Schema Evolution with ksqlDB Migrations
Making changes to a database schema is a natural part of software development. Often, it’s important to carefully manage the timing of changes and keep track of them over time. […]
Consistency and Completeness: Rethinking Distributed Stream Processing in Apache Kafka
Stream processing has become an important part of the big data landscape, a new programming paradigm bringing asynchronous, long-lived computations to unbounded data in motion. But many people still think […]
Are We There Yet? The Query Your Database Can’t Answer
What if I told you there is a query your database can’t answer? That would probably surprise you. With decades of effort behind them, databases are one of the most […]
Announcing ksqlDB 0.18.0
We’re pleased to announce ksqlDB 0.18.0! This release includes pull queries on table-table joins and support for variable substitution in the Java client and ksqlDB’s migration tool. We’ll step through […]
Streaming ETL with Confluent: Routing and Fan-Out of Apache Kafka Messages with ksqlDB
In the world of data engineering, data routing decisions are crucial to successful distributed system design. Some organizations choose to route data from within application code. Other teams hand off […]
Announcing ksqlDB 0.17.0
We’re excited to announce ksqlDB 0.17, a big release for 2021. This version adds support for managing the lifecycle of your queries from CI servers, a first-class timestamp data type, […]
Learning with LiveStreams: Cloud-Native Apache Kafka and Serverless Stream Processing
LiveStreams is a YouTube show about Confluent, real-time data streaming, and related technologies that help you maximize data in motion on any cloud. Every episode of LiveStreams will teach you […]
How to Tune RocksDB for Your Kafka Streams Application
Apache Kafka ships with Kafka Streams, a powerful yet lightweight client library for Java and Scala to implement highly scalable and elastic applications and microservices that process and analyze data […]
Keys in ksqlDB, Unlocked
One of the most highly requested enhancements to ksqlDB is here! Apache Kafka® messages may contain data in message keys as well as message values. Until now, ksqlDB could only […]
Announcing ksqlDB 0.15
We’re pleased to announce ksqlDB 0.15, our first release of 2021! This version adds rich support for message key columns and long-awaited improvement to interactive development with the command line […]
Announcing ksqlDB 0.14.0
We’re pleased to announce ksqlDB 0.14, one of our most significant releases of the year. This version includes expanded query support over materialized views, incremental schema alteration, variable substitution, additional […]
4 Incredible ksqlDB Techniques (#2 Will Make You Cry)
Building event streaming applications has never been simpler with ksqlDB. But what is it? ksqlDB is an event streaming database for building stream processing applications. Unlike Kafka Streams, ksqlDB programs […]