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Announcing the Snowflake Sink Connector for Apache Kafka in Confluent Cloud
We are excited to announce the general availability release of the fully managed Snowflake sink connector in Confluent Cloud, our fully managed event streaming service based on Apache Kafka®. Our […]
How Merging Companies Will Give Rise to Unified Data Streams
Company mergers are becoming more common as businesses strive to improve performance and grow market share by saving costs and eliminating competition through acquisitions. But how do business mergers relate […]
Build Real-Time Observability Pipelines with Confluent Cloud and AppDynamics
Many organisations rely on commercial or open source monitoring tools to measure the performance and stability of business-critical applications. AppDynamics, Datadog, and Prometheus are widely used commercial and open source […]
Project Metamorphosis Month 2: Cost-Effective Apache Kafka for Use Cases Big and Small
In April, we kicked off Project Metamorphosis. Project Metamorphosis is an effort to bring the simplicity of best of breed cloud systems to the world of event streaming. It is […]
Announcing the MongoDB Atlas Sink and Source Connectors in Confluent Cloud
We are excited to announce the preview release of the fully managed MongoDB Atlas source and sink connectors in Confluent Cloud, our fully managed event streaming service based on Apache […]
Webify Event Streams Using the Kafka Connect HTTP Sink Connector
The goal of this post is to illustrate PUSH to web from Apache Kafka® with a hands-on example. Our business users are always wanting their data faster so they can […]
How the New Confluent Hub Makes Finding Connectors Easier Than Ever
Confluent Hub launched in 2018 as a place to discover and share Apache Kafka® and Confluent Platform plugins. Users have found the site a much better place to discover useful […]
How to Make Your Open Source Apache Kafka Connector Available on Confluent Hub
Do you have data you need to get into or out of Apache Kafka®? Kafka connectors are perfect for this. There are many connectors out there, usually for well-known and […]
Building a Cloud ETL Pipeline on Confluent Cloud
As enterprises move more and more of their applications to the cloud, they are also moving their on-prem ETL pipelines to the cloud, as well as building new ones. There […]
Celebrating Over 100 Supported Apache Kafka Connectors
We just released Confluent Platform 5.4, which is one of our most important releases to date in terms of the features we’ve delivered to help enterprises take Apache Kafka® and […]
Getting Started with the MongoDB Connector for Apache Kafka and MongoDB
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 […]
Introducing a Cloud-Native Experience for Apache Kafka in Confluent Cloud
In the last year, we’ve experienced enormous growth on Confluent Cloud, our fully managed Apache Kafka® service. Confluent Cloud now handles several GB/s of traffic—a 200-fold increase in just six […]
From Apache Kafka to Amazon S3: Exactly Once
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 […]
All About the Kafka Connect Neo4j Sink Plugin
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 […]