Neu in Confluent Cloud: Daten & Pipelines für KI-fähiges Streaming zugänglich machen | Mehr erfahren
Confluent Blog
Queues for Apache Kafka® Is Here: Your Guide to Getting Started in Confluent
Confluent announces the General Availability of Queues for Kafka on Confluent Cloud and Confluent Platform with Apache Kafka 4.2. This production-ready feature brings native queue semantics to Kafka through KIP-932, enabling organizations to consolidate streaming and queuing infrastructure while...
AI Tools for Builders — Confluent's MCP Server & Agent Skills
Confluent's AI developer tools are now GA: an open-source local MCP server, a managed MCP server, and Agent Skills. Together they give AI coding assistants direct access to your streaming platform — the tools to act on it and the domain knowledge to build correctly.
New in Confluent Intelligence: Real-Time Context Engine Upgrade, New Model Support, ML Functions, and More
Explore new Confluent Intelligence features: enhanced querying with Real-Time Context Engine, PII detection, sentiment analysis, and support for TimesFM, Anthropic, and Fireworks AI models.
Apache Kafka as a Service with Confluent Cloud Now Available on Azure Marketplace
Less than six months ago, we announced support for Microsoft Azure in Confluent Cloud, which allows developers using Azure as a public cloud to build event streaming applications with Apache […]
Announcing ksqlDB 0.7.0
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, […]
Seamless SIEM – Part 2: Anomaly Detection with Machine Learning and ksqlDB
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 […]
Integrating Elasticsearch and ksqlDB for Powerful Data Enrichment and Analytics
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, […]
Seamless SIEM – Part 1: Osquery Event Log Aggregation and Confluent Platform
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 […]
Building a Materialized Cache with ksqlDB
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 […]
Kafka Summit London 2020 Agenda, Keynotes, and Other News
Do you make New Year’s resolutions? The most I personally hear about them is people making a big show about how they don’t do them. And sure enough, I don’t […]
Streaming Machine Learning with Tiered Storage and Without a Data Lake
The combination of streaming machine learning (ML) and Confluent Tiered Storage enables you to build one scalable, reliable, but also simple infrastructure for all machine learning tasks using the Apache […]
Infinite Storage in Confluent Platform
A preview of Confluent Tiered Storage is now available in Confluent Platform 5.4, enabling operators to add an additional storage tier for data in Confluent Platform. If you’re curious about […]
Introducing Confluent Platform 5.4
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 […]
Featuring Apache Kafka in the Netflix Studio and Finance World
Netflix spent an estimated $15 billion to produce world-class original content in 2019. When stakes are so high, it is paramount to enable our business with critical insights that help […]
Streams and Tables in Apache Kafka: Elasticity, Fault Tolerance, and Other Advanced Concepts
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 […]
Streams and Tables in Apache Kafka: Processing Fundamentals with Kafka Streams and ksqlDB
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 […]
Streams and Tables in Apache Kafka: Topics, Partitions, and Storage Fundamentals
Part 1 of this series discussed the basic elements of an event streaming platform: events, streams, and tables. We also introduced the stream-table duality and learned why it is a […]