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How to Remove Apache Kafka Brokers the Safe and Easy Way With Confluent Server
The recent release of Confluent Cloud and Confluent Platform 7.0 introduced the ability to easily remove Apache Kafka® brokers and shrink your Confluent Server cluster with just a single command. […]
5 Common Pitfalls When Using Apache Kafka
Whether you’re a seasoned Apache Kafka® developer or just getting started you’re likely to hit a snag at some point or another—either in configuring and understanding your clients or setting […]
Auto-Balancing and Optimizing Apache Kafka Clusters with Improved Observability and Elasticity in Confluent Platform 7.0
While Self-Balancing Clusters (SBC) perform effectively in balancing Apache Kafka® clusters, one of the common themes we hear from our users is that they would love some visibility into the […]
How to Survive an Apache Kafka Outage
There is a class of applications that cannot afford to be unavailable—for example, external-facing entry points into your organization. Typically, anything your customers interact with directly cannot go down. As […]
Implementing mTLS and Securing Apache Kafka at Zendesk
At Zendesk, Apache Kafka® is one of our foundational services for distributing events among different internal systems. We have pods, which can be thought of as isolated cloud environments where […]
Restoring Balance to the Cluster: Self-Balancing Clusters in Confluent Platform 6.0
Apache Kafka® scales well. A Kafka cluster can grow to tens or hundreds of brokers and easily sustain tens of GB per second of read and write traffic. But scaling […]
What’s New in Apache Kafka 2.5
On behalf of the Apache Kafka® community, it is my pleasure to announce the release of Apache Kafka 2.5.0. The community has created another exciting release. We are making progress […]
Building Confluent Cloud – Here’s What We’ve Learned
In July 2017, Confluent launched a private preview of what would later be known as Confluent Cloud. This platform as a service product has grown rapidly; less than three years […]
What’s New in Apache Kafka 2.4
On behalf of the Apache Kafka® community, it is my pleasure to announce the release of Apache Kafka 2.4.0. This release includes a number of key new features and improvements […]