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Kafka Streams
Elastic Scaling in the Streams API in Kafka
This blog post is the first in a series about the Streams API of Apache Kafka, the new stream processing library of the Apache Kafka project, which was introduced in Kafka v0.10. Current […]
Log Compaction | Highlights in the Apache Kafka and Stream Processing Community | July 2016
Here comes the July 2016 edition of Log Compaction, a monthly digest of highlights in the Apache Kafka and stream processing community. Want to share some exciting news on this […]
Distributed, Real-time Joins and Aggregations on User Activity Events using Kafka Streams
In previous blog posts we introduced Kafka Streams and demonstrated an end-to-end Hello World streaming application that analyzes Wikipedia real-time updates through a combination of Kafka Streams and Kafka Connect. […]
Apache Kafka and Kafka Streams at Berlin Buzzwords
At the beginning of June several Confluent team members attended Berlin Buzzwords 2016, where we gave three talks focused on stream processing and distributed computing. These talks, which we summarize […]
Log Compaction | Highlights in the Apache Kafka and Stream Processing Community | June 2016
After months of testing efforts and seven voting rounds, Apache Kafka 0.10.0 and the corresponding Confluent Platform 3.0 have been finally released, cheers!
Announcing Apache Kafka 0.10 and Confluent Platform 3.0
I am very excited to announce the availability of the 0.10 release of Apache Kafka and the 3.0 release of the Confluent Platform. This release marks the availability of Kafka […]
Log Compaction | Kafka Summit Edition | May 2016
Last week, Confluent hosted Kafka Summit, the first ever conference to focus on Apache Kafka and stream processing. It was exciting to see the stream processing community coming together in […]
Join us for the Inaugural Stream Data Hackathon
I’m happy to announce that Confluent will be hosting the first Stream Data Hackathon this April 25th in San Francisco! Apache Kafka has recently introduced two new major features: Kafka […]
Hello World, Kafka Connect + Kafka Streams
Important: The information in this article is outdated. With recent Kafka versions the integration between Kafka Connect and Kafka Streams as well as KSQL has become much simpler and easier. […]
Log Compaction | Highlights in the Apache Kafka and Stream Processing Community | April 2016
The Apache Kafka community was crazy-busy last month. We released a technical preview of Kafka Streams and then voted on a release plan for Kafka 0.10.0. We accelerated the discussion […]
Introducing Kafka Streams: Stream Processing Made Simple
I’m really excited to announce a major new feature in Apache Kafka v0.10: Kafka’s Streams API. The Streams API, available as a Java library that is part of the official […]
Log Compaction | Highlights in the Kafka and Stream Processing Community | February 2016
Welcome to the February 2016 edition of Log Compaction, a monthly digest of highlights in the Apache Kafka and stream processing community. Got a newsworthy item? Let us know.
Log Compaction | Highlights in the Kafka and Stream Processing Community | January 2016
Happy 2016! Wishing you a wonderful, highly scalable, and very reliable year. Log Compaction is a monthly digest of highlights in the Apache Kafka and stream processing community. Got a newsworthy item? Let us […]
Log Compaction | Highlights in the Kafka and Stream Processing Community | November 2015
The Apache Kafka community just concluded its busiest month ever. As we are preparing for the upcoming release of Kafka 0.9.0.0, the community worked together to close a record number […]