Java
Getting Started with Spring Cloud Data Flow and Confluent Cloud
Data is the currency of competitive advantage in today’s digital age. All organizations struggle with their data due to the sheer variety of data types and ways that it can […]
ksqlDB Meets Java: An IoT-Inspired Demo of the Java Client for ksqlDB
Stream processing applications, including streaming ETL pipelines, materialized caches, and event-driven microservices, are made easy with ksqlDB. Until recently, your options for interacting with ksqlDB were limited to its command-line […]
Multi-Threaded Message Consumption with the Apache Kafka Consumer
Multithreading is “the ability of a central processing unit (CPU) (or a single core in a multi-core processor) to provide multiple threads of execution concurrently, supported by the operating system.” […]
Announcing ksqlDB 0.10.0
We’re excited to announce the release of ksqlDB 0.10.0, available now in the standalone distribution and on Confluent Cloud! This version includes a first-class Java client, improved Apache Kafka® key […]
My Python/Java/Spring/Go/Whatever Client Won’t Connect to My Apache Kafka Cluster in Docker/AWS/My Brother’s Laptop. Please Help!
When a client wants to send or receive a message from Apache Kafka®, there are two types of connection that must succeed: The initial connection to a broker (the […]
Webify Event Streams Using the Kafka Connect HTTP Sink Connector
The goal of this post is to illustrate PUSH to web from Apache Kafka® with a hands-on example. Our business users are always wanting their data faster so they can […]
How to Use Schema Registry and Avro in Spring Boot Applications
TL;DR Following on from How to Work with Apache Kafka in Your Spring Boot Application, which shows how to get started with Spring Boot and Apache Kafka®, here I will […]
The First Annual State of Apache Kafka® Client Use Survey
At the end of 2016 we conducted a survey of the Apache Kafka® community regarding their use of Kafka clients (the producers and consumers used with Kafka) and their priorities […]
Confluent Contributions to the Apache Kafka™ Client Ecosystem
If you are using Apache Kafka from a language other than Java one of the first questions you probably have is something like, “Why are there two (or five!) clients […]