Author: Confluent Staff

Learn how to scale Kafka Streams applications to handle massive throughput with partitioning, scaling strategies, tuning, and monitoring.

Learn how to choose the right Apache Kafka® multi-cluster replication pattern and run an audit-ready disaster recovery and high availability program with lag SLOs, drills, and drift control.

Learn how to handle data transformation, schema evolution, and security in Kafka Connect with best practices for consistency, enrichment, and format conversions.

Learn best practices for validating your Apache Kafka® disaster recovery and high availability strategies, using techniques like chaos testing, monitoring, and documented recovery playbooks.

Learn best practices for running Kafka Connect in production—covering scaling, security, error handling, and monitoring to build resilient data integration pipelines.

Learn how to automate BI with real-time streaming. Explore event-driven workflows that deliver instant insights and close the gap between data and action.

Discover how banks and payment providers use Apache Kafka® streaming to detect and block fraud in real time. Learn patterns for anomaly detection, risk mitigation, and trusted automation.

Discover why microservices architectures thrive with event-driven design and how streaming powers applications that are agile, resilient, and responsive in real time.

Learn how to validate and monitor data quality in real time with Apache Kafka® and Confluent. Prevent bad data from entering pipelines, improve trust in analytics, and power reliable business decisions.

Learn how to design real-time alerts with Apache Kafka® using alerting patterns, anomaly detection, and automated workflows for resilient responses to critical events.

Learn how to build real-time dashboards with Apache Kafka® that help your organization go beyond simple data visualization and analysis paralysis to instant analysis and action.

Build event-driven agents on Apache Flink® with Streaming Agents on Confluent Cloud—fresh context, MCP tool calling, real-time embeddings, and enterprise governance.

Learn how data streaming unlocks shift-left data integration—a key enabler for adopting and building next-generation technologies like generative AI— for the government agency.

Learn how to delete topics in Apache Kafka safely and efficiently. Explore step-by-step instructions, best practices, and important considerations for managing Kafka topics.