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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.
Announcing ksqlDB 0.18.0
We’re pleased to announce ksqlDB 0.18.0! This release includes pull queries on table-table joins and support for variable substitution in the Java client and ksqlDB’s migration tool. We’ll step through […]
Continuous Deployment of Confluent with Ansible Tower
When self-managing Confluent, provisioning and configuring Apache Kafka® deployments along with the rest of the Confluent components involves many hurdles, such as managing infrastructure, installing software, and configuring security. And […]
Error Handling Patterns for Apache Kafka Applications
Apache Kafka® applications run in a distributed manner across multiple containers or machines. And in the world of distributed systems, what can go wrong often goes wrong. This blog post […]
Introducing Cluster Authorization Using RBAC, Audit Logs, and BYOK for Enterprise-Grade Security
When it comes to launching your next app with data in motion, few things pose the same risk to going live as meeting requirements for data security and compliance. Doing […]
Confluent CLI Launches Exciting New Features and an Intuitive UI
With so many technologies in the modern development ecosystem, a common complaint is having to go through the mental gymnastics of adopting new products and keeping up with ever-expanding feature […]
Kafka Summit Europe 2021 Recap
And that’s a wrap on Kafka Summit Europe 2021, the first of three global Kafka Summits this year. We’ve seen 17,000 registrations from over 7,000 companies and 137 different countries. […]
Using kafka-merge-purge to Deal with Failure in an Event-Driven System at FLYERALARM
Failures are inevitable in any system, and there are various options for mitigating them automatically. This is made possible by event-driven applications leveraging Apache Kafka® and built with fault tolerance […]
Introducing Confluent for Kubernetes
We are excited to announce that Confluent for Kubernetes is generally available! Today, we are enabling our customers to realize many of the benefits of our cloud service with the […]
Announcing the MongoDB Atlas Sink and Source Connectors in Confluent Cloud
Today, Confluent is announcing the general availability (GA) of the fully managed MongoDB Atlas Source and MongoDB Atlas Sink Connectors within Confluent Cloud. Now, with just a few simple clicks, […]
Confluent Update Regarding Codecov Incident
Our team was recently notified of unauthorized read-only access to Confluent’s GitHub account stemming from the recent Codecov incident (more information here). The security of our customers and their data […]
Streaming ETL with Confluent: Routing and Fan-Out of Apache Kafka Messages with ksqlDB
In the world of data engineering, data routing decisions are crucial to successful distributed system design. Some organizations choose to route data from within application code. Other teams hand off […]
How to Maximize Your Time at Kafka Summit Europe 2021
This past year has offered little in the way of normalcy for pretty much everyone outside of New Zealand and Taiwan. Rising to the occasion, conference organizers have put together […]
6 Strategies to Survive Apache Kafka® Broker Failures & Other Outages
There is a class of applications that cannot afford to be unavailable—for example, external-facing entry points into your organization. Typically, anything your customers interact with directly cannot go down. As […]
Announcing ksqlDB 0.17.0
We’re excited to announce ksqlDB 0.17, a big release for 2021. This version adds support for managing the lifecycle of your queries from CI servers, a first-class timestamp data type, […]