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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

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.

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

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!

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

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

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

Important: The information in this article is outdated.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.

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

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