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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 […]
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 […]
Real-Time Analytics and Monitoring Dashboards with Apache Kafka and Rockset
In the early days, many companies simply used Apache Kafka® for data ingestion into Hadoop or another data lake. However, Apache Kafka is more than just messaging. The significant difference […]
Every Company is Becoming a Software Company
In 2011, Marc Andressen wrote an article called Why Software is Eating the World. The central idea is that any process that can be moved into software, will be. This […]
The Rise of Managed Services for Apache Kafka
As a distributed system for collecting, storing, and processing data at scale, Apache Kafka® comes with its own deployment complexities. Luckily for on-premises scenarios, a myriad of deployment options are […]
Reflections on Event Streaming as Confluent Turns Five – Part 2
When people ask me the very top-level question “why do people use Kafka,” I usually lead with the story in my last post, where I talked about how Apache Kafka® […]
Reflections on Event Streaming as Confluent Turns Five – Part 1
For me, and I think for you, technology is cool by itself. When you first learn how consistent hashing works, it’s fun. When you finally understand log-structured merge trees, it’s […]
Using Graph Processing for Kafka Streams Visualizations
We know that Apache Kafka® is great when you’re dealing with streams, allowing you to conveniently look at streams as tables. Stream processing engines like ksqlDB furthermore give you the […]
Announcing Tutorials for Apache Kafka
We’re excited to announce Tutorials for Apache Kafka®, a new area of our website for learning event streaming. Kafka Tutorials is a collection of common event streaming use cases, with […]
Microservices, Apache Kafka, and Domain-Driven Design
Microservices have a symbiotic relationship with domain-driven design (DDD)—a design approach where the business domain is carefully modeled in software and evolved over time, independently of the plumbing that makes […]
Spring for Apache Kafka Deep Dive – Part 4: Continuous Delivery of Event Streaming Pipelines
For event streaming application developers, it is important to continuously update the streaming pipeline based on the need for changes in the individual applications in the pipeline. It is also […]
Spring for Apache Kafka Deep Dive – Part 3: Apache Kafka and Spring Cloud Data Flow
Following part 1 and part 2 of the Spring for Apache Kafka Deep Dive blog series, here in part 3 we will discuss another project from the Spring team: Spring […]
Deploying Kafka Streams and KSQL with Gradle – Part 2: Managing KSQL Implementations
In part 1, we discussed an event streaming architecture that we implemented for a customer using Apache Kafka®, KSQL from Confluent, and Kafka Streams. Now in part 2, we’ll discuss […]
Introducing a Cloud-Native Experience for Apache Kafka in Confluent Cloud
In the last year, we’ve experienced enormous growth on Confluent Cloud, our fully managed Apache Kafka® service. Confluent Cloud now handles several GB/s of traffic—a 200-fold increase in just six […]