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Enterprises run modern data systems and services across multiple cloud providers, private clouds and on-prem multi-datacenter deployments. Instead of having many point-to-point connections between sites, the Confluent Platform provides an

Here at Confluent, our goal is to ensure every company is successful with their streaming platform deployments. Oftentimes, we’re asked to come in and provide guidance and tips as developers

One of the most common pain points we hear is around managing the flow and placement of data between datacenters. Almost every Apache Kafka user eventually ends up with clusters

When we released Apache Kafka 0.9.0.0, we talked about all of the big new features we added: the new consumer, Kafka Connect, security features, and much more. What we didn’t

This post was jointly written by Neha Narkhede, co-creator of Apache Kafka, and Flavio Junqueira, co-creator of Apache ZooKeeper. Many distributed systems that we build and use currently rely on dependencies like

Building operational simplicity into distributed systems, especially for nuanced behaviors, is somewhat of an art and often best achieved after gathering production experience. Apache Kafka‘s popularity can be attributed in

Summary: Confluent is starting to explore the integration of databases with event streams. As part of the first step in this exploration, Martin Kleppmann has made a new open source