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This month saw the proposal of a few KIPs which will have a big impact on Apache Kafka’s semantics as well as Kafka’s operability.
Lots of interesting happenings occurred in the wider streaming community as well, notably:
And last but not least, Confluent released version 3.1 of Confluent Platform.
Happy Holidays!
Confluent, powered by Kafka, is the real-time backbone for agentic systems built with Google Cloud. It enables agents to access fresh data (MCP) and communicate seamlessly (A2A) via a decoupled architecture. This ensures scalability, resilience, and observability for complex, intelligent workflows.
AWS Lambda's Kafka Event Source Mapping now supports Confluent Schema Registry. This update simplifies building event-driven applications by eliminating the need for custom code to deserialize Avro/Protobuf data. The integration makes it easier and more efficient to leverage Confluent Cloud.