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From joining Confluent as one of the first engineers on the security team to now managing a team of four, Tejal has had incredible opportunities to learn and grow during her six years at the company.

Let’s learn more about Tejal and how Confluent fosters an environment of constant learning—all...

We are proud to announce the release of Apache Kafka 3.9.0. This is a major release, the final one in the 3.x line. This will also be the final major release to feature the deprecated Apache ZooKeeper® mode. Starting in 4.0 and later, Kafka will always run without ZooKeeper.

Join Confluent at AWS re:Invent 2024 to learn how to stream, connect, process, and govern data, unlocking its full potential. Explore innovations like GenAI use cases, Apache Iceberg, and seamless integration with AWS services. Visit our booth for demos, sessions, and more.

This blog explores how cloud service providers (CSPs) and managed service providers (MSPs) increasingly recognize the advantages of leveraging Confluent to deliver fully managed Kafka services to their clients. Confluent enables these service providers to deliver higher value offerings to wider...

A year in at Confluent, Product Manager Surabhi Singh has learned a lot about data streaming—and even more about herself. In this fast-paced environment, Surabhi is highly motivated and committed to her work strategically planning, coordinating, and delivering product improvements for customers...

Building a headless data architecture requires us to identify the work we’re already doing deep inside our data analytics plane, and shift it to the left. Learn the specifics in this blog.

The Confluent for Startups AI Accelerator Program is a 10-week virtual initiative designed to support early-stage AI startups building real-time, data-driven applications. Participants will gain early access to Confluent’s cutting-edge technology, one-on-one mentorship, marketing exposure, and...

Imagine competing in a high-stakes, gamified environment where you're tasked with solving real-world data challenges, all while exploring AWS and Confluent services hands-on. Welcome to AWS GameDay—an experience like no other.

A headless data architecture means no longer having to coordinate multiple copies of data, and being free to use whatever processing or query engine is most suitable for the job. This blog details how it works.

In this third installment of a blog series examining Kafka Producer and Consumer Internals, we switch our attention to Kafka consumer clients, examining how consumers interact with brokers, coordinate their partitions, and send requests to read data from Kafka topics.

Confluent has helped thousands migrate to KRaft, Kafka’s new consensus protocol that replaces ZooKeeper for metadata management. Kafka users can migrate to KRaft quickly and with ease by using automated tools like Confluent for Kubernetes (CFK) and Ansible Playbooks.

This blog post announces the launch of the APAC deep dive of the data streaming report.

Event design plays a big role in your ability to fix bad data in your streams. But if you’ve wrecked a stream with bad data (i.e., it’s unavoidably contaminated), you'll need to employ a "rewind, rebuild, and retry" strategy.

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