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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.
How Instacart Upscaled Its Data Pipelines to Handle 10 Years of Growth in 6 Weeks
Instacart’s core mission—to create a world where everyone has access to the food they love and more time to enjoy it together—took on a new level of importance and urgency […]
Announcing the Confluent Q1 ‘22 Launch
The Confluent Q1 ‘22 Launch is live and packed full of new features that enable businesses to continue innovating quickly with real-time experiences fueled by data in motion. Our quarterly […]
Announcing ksqlDB 0.23.1
We’re pleased to announce ksqlDB 0.23.1! This release allows you to now perform pull queries on streams, which makes it much easier to find a given record in a topic. […]
5 Common Pitfalls When Using Apache Kafka
Whether you’re a seasoned Apache Kafka® developer or just getting started you’re likely to hit a snag at some point or another—either in configuring and understanding your clients or setting […]
Auto-Balancing and Optimizing Apache Kafka Clusters with Improved Observability and Elasticity in Confluent Platform 7.0
While Self-Balancing Clusters (SBC) perform effectively in balancing Apache Kafka® clusters, one of the common themes we hear from our users is that they would love some visibility into the […]
The Link To Cloud: How to Build a Seamless and Secure Hybrid Data Bridge with Cluster Linking
Chances are your business is migrating to the cloud. But if you operate business applications in an on-premises datacenter, you know firsthand that the journey to the cloud is fraught […]
Creating Positive Behavioral Changes at Scale with Confluent and ksqlDB at Omada
At Omada, we change mindsets to change health by partnering with our care teams to discover the behavior change techniques that lead to optimal care pathways for members across our […]
Enterprise Mainframe Change Data Capture (CDC) to Apache Kafka with tcVISION and Confluent
Users with business-critical data locked in mainframes want to exploit this data by using Confluent to deploy in either a public cloud, multicloud, on-premises, or hybrid infrastructure. In collaboration with […]
I Interviewed Nearly 200 Apache Kafka Experts and I Learned These 10 Things
Many leading lights of the Apache Kafka® community have appeared as guests on Streaming Audio at one time or another in the past three years. But some of its episodes […]
Real-Time Log Analytics as a Service with Confluent and Elasticsearch
Collecting and indexing logs from servers, applications, and devices enables crucial visibility into running systems. A log analytics pipeline allows teams to debug and troubleshoot issues, track historical trends, or […]
Deploy Confluent Platform in 5 Steps with the Ansible Installer
An initial distributed deployment of Confluent Platform is often a necessary step toward supporting your first real-time data use case. We offer enterprise-grade deployment orchestration with Confluent for Kubernetes and […]
Data Sharing Patterns with Confluent Schema Registry
Sharing metadata on the data you store in your Confluent cluster is paramount to allow for effective sharing of that data across the enterprise. As the usage of real-time data […]
The Definitive Guide to Building a Data Mesh with Event Streams
Data mesh. This oft-talked-about architecture has no shortage of blog posts, conference talks, podcasts, and discussions. One thing that you may have found lacking is a concrete guide on precisely […]
Serverless Stream Processing with Apache Kafka, AWS Lambda, and ksqlDB
It seems like now more than ever developers are surrounded by a sea of terminology—but what does it really all mean? Here, we will take some often heard terms—some considered […]