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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.
Apache Kafka Producer Improvements with the Sticky Partitioner
The amount of time it takes for a message to move through a system plays a big role in the performance of distributed systems like Apache Kafka®. In Kafka, the […]
Testing Kafka Streams Using TestInputTopic and TestOutputTopic
As a test class that allows you to test Kafka Streams logic, TopologyTestDriver is a lot faster than utilizing EmbeddedSingleNodeKafkaCluster and makes it possible to simulate different timing scenarios. Not […]
What’s New in Apache Kafka 2.4
On behalf of the Apache Kafka® community, it is my pleasure to announce the release of Apache Kafka 2.4.0. This release includes a number of key new features and improvements […]
Transferring Avro Schemas Across Schema Registries with Kafka Connect
Although starting out with one Confluent Schema Registry deployment per development environment is straightforward, over time, a company may scale and begin migrating data to a cloud environment (such as […]
Integrating Apache Kafka With Python Asyncio Web Applications
Modern Python has very good support for cooperative multitasking. Coroutines were first added to the language in version 2.5 with PEP 342 and their use is becoming mainstream following the […]
Providing Timely, Reliable, and Consistent Travel Information to Millions of Deutsche Bahn Passengers with Apache Kafka and Confluent Platform
Every day, about 5.7 million rail passengers rely on Deutsche Bahn (DB) to get to their destination. Virtually every one of these passengers needs access to vital trip information, including […]
Conquering Hybrid Cloud with Replicated Event-Driven Architectures
Potential advantages of hybrid cloud architectures include avoiding vendor lock-in, increasing system resilience, optimizing costs, and inducing price competition among cloud providers. Hybrid cloud architectures require the ability to securely […]
Kafka Streams and ksqlDB Compared – How to Choose
ksqlDB is a new kind of database purpose-built for stream processing apps, allowing users to build stream processing applications against data in Apache Kafka® and enhancing developer productivity. ksqlDB simplifies […]
Introducing ksqlDB
Today marks a new release of KSQL, one so significant that we’re giving it a new name: ksqlDB. Like KSQL, ksqlDB remains freely available and community licensed, and you can […]
Using Confluent Platform to Complete a Massive Cloud Provider Migration and Handle Half a Million Events Per Second
In the past 12 months, games and other forms of content made with the Unity platform were installed 33 billion times reaching 3 billion devices worldwide. Apart from our real-time […]
How to Use Single Message Transforms in Kafka Connect
Kafka Connect is the part of Apache Kafka® that provides reliable, scalable, distributed streaming integration between Apache Kafka and other systems. Kafka Connect has connectors for many, many systems, and […]
Introducing Confluent Cloud on Microsoft Azure
Today, we are proud to make Confluent Cloud available to companies leveraging the Microsoft Azure ecosystem of services, in addition to the previous rollouts on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and […]
Machine Learning and Real-Time Analytics in Apache Kafka Applications
The relationship between Apache Kafka® and machine learning (ML) is an interesting one that I’ve written about quite a bit in How to Build and Deploy Scalable Machine Learning in […]
Getting Started with Rust and Apache Kafka
I’ve written an event sourcing bank simulation in Clojure (a lisp build for Java virtual machines or JVMs) called open-bank-mark, which you are welcome to read about in my previous […]