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Apache Kafka
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.
Log Compaction – Highlights in the Apache Kafka® and Stream Processing Community – March 2017
Big news this month! First and foremost, Confluent Platform 3.2.0 with Apache Kafka® 0.10.2.0 was released! Read about the new features, check out all 200 bug fixes and performance improvements […]
The First Annual State of Apache Kafka® Client Use Survey
At the end of 2016 we conducted a survey of the Apache Kafka® community regarding their use of Kafka clients (the producers and consumers used with Kafka) and their priorities […]
Log Compaction – Highlights in the Apache Kafka and Stream Processing Community – February 2017
As always, we bring you news, updates and recommended content from the hectic world of Apache Kafka® and stream processing. Sometimes it seems that in Apache Kafka every improvement is […]
Apache Kafka: Getting Started
Seems that many engineers have “Learn Kafka” on their new year resolution list. This isn’t very surprising. Apache Kafka is a popular technology with many use-cases. Armed with basic Kafka […]
Log Compaction: Highlights in the Apache Kafka and Stream Processing Community – January 2017
Happy 2017! Wishing you a wonderful year full of fast and scalable data streams. Many things have happened since we last shared the state of Apache Kafka® and the streams […]
The Data Dichotomy: Rethinking the Way We Treat Data and Services
If you were to stumble upon the whole microservices thing, without any prior context, you’d be forgiven for thinking it a little strange. Taking an application and splitting it into fragments, […]
Log Compaction | Highlights in the Apache Kafka and Stream Processing Community | December 2016
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. KIP-95 : Incremental Batch Processing for […]
Announcing the 2017 Kafka Summits!
This year, we were pleased to host the inaugural Kafka Summit, the first global summit for the Apache Kafka community. Kafka Summit 2016 contributed valuable content to help Kafka users […]
Log Compaction | Highlights in the Apache Kafka and Stream Processing Community | November 2016
Last month the Apache Kafka community released version 0.10.1.0, the announcement blog contains a good description of new features and major improvements. In other exciting news, the PMC for Apache […]
Announcing Apache Kafka 0.10.1.0
The Apache Kafka community is pleased to announce the release of Apache Kafka 0.10.1.0. This is a feature release which includes the completion of 15 KIPs, over 200 bug fixes and […]
Streaming Data from Oracle using Oracle GoldenGate and the Connect API in Kafka
Note As of February 2021, Confluent has launched its own Oracle CDC connector. Read this blog post for the latest information.
Log Compaction | Highlights in the Apache Kafka and Stream Processing Community | October 2016
This month the community has been focused on the upcoming release of Apache Kafka 0.10.1.0. Led by the fearless release manager, Jason Gustafson, we voted on a release plan, cut […]
Log Compaction | Highlights in the Apache Kafka and Stream Processing Community | September 2016
It is September and it’s evident that everyone is back from their summer vacation! We released Apache Kafka 0.10.0.1 which includes fixes of the bugs in the 0.10.0 release. In […]
The Connect API in Kafka Cassandra Sink: The Perfect Match
The Connect API in Kafka is a scalable and robust framework for streaming data into and out of Apache Kafka, the engine powering modern streaming platforms. At DataMountaineer, we have worked on many big data and fast data projects across many industries from financial...