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Introducing Confluent Private Cloud: Cloud-Level Agility for Your Private Infrastructure
Confluent Private Cloud (CPC) is a new software package that extends Confluent’s cloud-native innovations to your private infrastructure. CPC offers an enhanced broker with up to 10x higher throughput and a new Gateway that provides network isolation and central policy enforcement without client...
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...
New in Confluent Intelligence: A2A, Multivariate Anomaly Detection, Vector Search for Cosmos DB, Amazon S3 Vectors, and More
Explore new Confluent Intelligence features: A2A integration, multivariate anomaly detection, vector search for Cosmos DB and S3 Vectors, Private Link, and MCP support.
Powering Microservices at SEI Investments with Event Streaming
We launched a transformation initiative three years ago that transitioned SEI Investments from a monolithic database-oriented architecture to a containerized services platform with an event-driven architecture based on Confluent Platform. […]
Event Streaming Across Networks and Corporate Firewalls Using PubNub and Confluent Platform
This year’s pandemic has forced businesses all around the world to adopt a “remote-first” approach to their operations, with an emphasis on better enabling collaboration, remote work, and productivity. This […]
Helpful Tools for Apache Kafka Developers
Apache Kafka® is at the core of a large ecosystem that includes powerful components, such as Kafka Connect and Kafka Streams. This ecosystem also includes many tools and utilities that […]
Better to Be Wrong Than Vague: Apache Kafka and Software Architecture Predictions for 2021
On a recent episode of Streaming Audio, Gwen Shapira, Michael Noll, and Ben Stopford joined me to hold forth about the near future of Apache Kafka® and software architecture in […]
Property Based Testing Confluent Cloud Storage for Fun and Safety
Confluent uses property-based testing to test various aspects of Confluent Cloud’s Tiered Storage feature. Tiered Storage shifts data from expensive local broker disks to cheaper, scalable object storage, thereby reducing […]
Putting Apache Kafka to REST: Confluent REST Proxy 6.0
Confluent Platform 6.0 was released last year bringing with it many exciting new features to Confluent REST Proxy. Before we dive into what was added, let’s first revisit what REST […]
Implementing mTLS and Securing Apache Kafka at Zendesk
At Zendesk, Apache Kafka® is one of our foundational services for distributing events among different internal systems. We have pods, which can be thought of as isolated cloud environments where […]
Intro to Apache Kafka: How Kafka Works
We recently published tutorial videos and a series of tweets on the Apache Kafka® platform as we see it. After you hear that there’s a thing called Kafka but before […]
What’s New in Apache Kafka 2.7.0
I’m proud to announce the release of Apache Kafka 2.7.0 on behalf of the Apache Kafka® community. The 2.7.0 release contains many new features and improvements. This blog post highlights […]
Spring Your Microservices into Production with Kubernetes and GitOps
Microservice architectures continue to grow within engineering organizations as teams strive to increase development velocity. Microservices promote the idea of modularity as a first-class citizen in a distributed architecture, enabling […]
Announcing ksqlDB 0.14.0
We’re pleased to announce ksqlDB 0.14, one of our most significant releases of the year. This version includes expanded query support over materialized views, incremental schema alteration, variable substitution, additional […]
Introducing the Confluent Parallel Consumer
Consuming messages in parallel is what Apache Kafka® is all about, so you may well wonder, why would we want anything else? It turns out that, in practice, there are […]
4 Incredible ksqlDB Techniques (#2 Will Make You Cry)
Building event streaming applications has never been simpler with ksqlDB. But what is it? ksqlDB is an event streaming database for building stream processing applications. Unlike Kafka Streams, ksqlDB programs […]
Transactional Machine Learning at Scale with MAADS-VIPER and Apache Kafka
This blog post shows how transactional machine learning (TML) integrates data streams with automated machine learning (AutoML), using Apache Kafka® as the data backbone, to create a frictionless machine learning […]