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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.
Announcing Apache Kafka 0.9.0.1 and Confluent Platform 2.0.1
A few months ago, we announced the major release of Apache Kafka 0.9, which added several new features like Security, Kafka Connect, the new Java consumer and also critical bug […]
Announcing Kafka Connect: Building large-scale low-latency data pipelines
For a long time, a substantial portion of data processing that companies did ran as big batch jobs — CSV files dumped out of databases, log files collected at the […]
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.
Apache Kafka Security 101
TLS, Kerberos, SASL, and Authorizer in Apache Kafka 0.9 – Enabling New Encryption, Authorization, and Authentication Features Apache Kafka is frequently used to store critical data making it one of […]
Introducing the Kafka Consumer: Getting Started with the New Apache Kafka 0.9 Consumer Client
When Apache Kafka® was originally created, it shipped with a Scala producer and consumer client. Over time we came to realize many of the limitations of these APIs. For example, […]
290 Reasons to Upgrade to Apache Kafka 0.9.0.0
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 […]
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 […]
How to Build a Scalable ETL Pipeline with Kafka Connect
Apache Kafka is a high-throughput distributed message system that is being adopted by hundreds of companies to manage their real-time data. Companies use Kafka for many applications (real time stream […]
Confluent Platform 2.0 is GA!
We are very excited to announce the general availability of Confluent Platform 2.0. For organizations that want to build a streaming data pipeline around Apache Kafka, Confluent Platform is the […]
Apache Kafka 0.9 is Released
I am pleased to announce the availability of the 0.9 release of Apache Kafka. This release has been in the works for several months with contributions from the community and […]
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 […]
Apache Kafka, Purgatory, and Hierarchical Timing Wheels
Apache Kafka has a data structure called the “request purgatory”. The purgatory holds any request that hasn’t yet met its criteria to succeed but also hasn’t yet resulted in an […]
Log Compaction | Highlights in the Kafka and Stream Processing Community | October 2015
The amount of work that got done by the community in the last month is truly impressive, especially considering how many conferences took place in September. Let’s take a look at the highlights: The […]
Yes, Virginia, You Really Do Need a Schema Registry
I ran into the schema-management problem while working with my second Hadoop customer. Until then, there was one true database and the database was responsible for managing schemas and pretty […]