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A technology community is made up of people. Without people writing code, writing tutorials, welcoming newcomers, giving presentations, and answering questions, what we have is not a community, but just […]

In the last year, we’ve experienced enormous growth on Confluent Cloud, our fully managed Apache Kafka® service. Confluent Cloud now handles several GB/s of traffic—a 200-fold increase in just six […]

So far in this series, we have recognized that by going back to first principles, we have a new foundation to work with. Event-first thinking enables us to build a […]

In anything but the smallest deployment of Apache Kafka®, there are often going to be multiple clusters of Kafka Connect and KSQL. Kafka Connect is used for building event streaming […]

Every developer who uses Apache Kafka® has used a Kafka consumer at least once. Although it is the simplest way to subscribe to and access events from Kafka, behind the […]

When managing Apache Kafka® clusters at scale, tasks that are simple on small clusters turn into significant burdens. To be fair, a lot of things turn into significant burdens at […]

Some years ago, when I was at LinkedIn, I didn’t really know what Apache Kafka® would become but had an inkling that the next generation of applications would not be […]

With the release of Apache Kafka® 2.1.0, Kafka Streams introduced the processor topology optimization framework at the Kafka Streams DSL layer. This framework opens the door for various optimization techniques […]

Industries are oftentimes more complex than we think. For example, the dinner you order at a restaurant or the ingredients you buy (or have delivered) to cook dinner at home […]

So you’ve convinced your friends and stakeholders about the benefits of event-driven systems. You have successfully piloted a few services backed by Apache Kafka®, and it is now supporting business-critical […]

When it was first created, Apache Kafka® had a client API for just Scala and Java. Since then, the Kafka client API has been developed for many other programming languages […]

While the current hype around the Internet of Things (IoT) focuses on smart “things”—smart homes, smart cars, smart watches—the first known IoT device was a simple Coca-Cola vending machine at […]

As we announced in Introducing Confluent Platform 5.2, the latest release introduces many new features that enable you to build contextual event-driven applications. In particular, the management and monitoring capabilities […]

It seems like there’s a Kafka Summit every other month. Of course there’s not—it’s every fourth month—but hey, close enough. We now have the Kafka Summit New York in the […]