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We are pleased to announce the release of ksqlDB 0.7.0. This release features highly available state, security enhancements for queries, a broadened range of language/data expressions, performance improvements, bug fixes,

We talked about how easy it is to send osquery logs to the Confluent Platform in part 1. Now, we’ll consume streams of osquery logs, detect anomalous behavior using machine

Apache Kafka® is often deployed alongside Elasticsearch to perform log exploration, metrics monitoring and alerting, data visualisation, and analytics. It is complementary to Elasticsearch but also overlaps in some ways,

Osquery (developed by Facebook) is an open source tool used to gather audit log events from an operating system (OS). What’s unique about osquery is that it uses basic SQL

When a company becomes overreliant on a centralized database, a world of bad things start to happen. Queries become slow, taxing an overburdened execution engine. Engineering decisions come to a

I am pleased to announce the release of Confluent Platform 5.4. Like any new release of Confluent Platform, it’s packed with features. To make them easier to digest, I want

Now that we’ve learned about the processing layer of Apache Kafka® by looking at streams and tables, as well as the architecture of distributed processing with the Kafka Streams API

Part 2 of this series discussed in detail the storage layer of Apache Kafka: topics, partitions, and brokers, along with storage formats and event partitioning. Now that we have this

This four-part series explores the core fundamentals of Kafka’s storage and processing layers and how they interrelate. In this first part, we begin with an overview of events, streams, tables,

When KSQL was released, my first blog post about it showed how to use KSQL with Twitter data. Two years later, its successor ksqlDB was born, which we announced this