Change data capture is a popular method to connect database tables to data streams, but it comes with drawbacks. The next evolution of the CDC pattern, first-class data products, provide resilient pipelines that support both real-time and batch processing while isolating upstream systems...
Learn how the latest innovations in Kora enable us to introduce new Confluent Cloud Freight clusters, which can save you up to 90% at GBps+ scale. Confluent Cloud Freight clusters are now available in Early Access.
Learn how to contribute to open source Apache Kafka by writing Kafka Improvement Proposals (KIPs) that solve problems and add features! Read on for real examples.
Note: The blog post Ensure Data Quality and Data Evolvability with a Secured Schema Registry contains more recent information. If you use Apache Kafka to integrate and decouple different data […]
Big news this month! First and foremost, Confluent Platform 3.2.0 with Apache Kafka® 0.10.2.0 was released! Read about the new features, check out all 200 bug fixes and performance improvements […]
We’re excited to announce the release of Confluent 3.2, our enterprise streaming platform built on Apache Kafka. At Confluent, our vision is to provide a comprehensive, enterprise-ready streaming platform that […]
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 […]
As always, we bring you news, updates and recommended content from the hectic world of Apache Kafka® and stream processing. Sometimes it seems that in Apache Kafka every improvement is […]
Last November, we released Confluent 3.1, with new connectors, clients, and Enterprise features. Today, we’re pleased to announce Confluent 3.1.2, a patch release which incorporates the latest stable version of […]
Seems that many engineers have “Learn Kafka” on their new year resolution list. This isn’t very surprising. Apache Kafka is a popular technology with many use-cases. Armed with basic Kafka […]
Happy 2017! Wishing you a wonderful year full of fast and scalable data streams. Many things have happened since we last shared the state of Apache Kafka® and the streams […]
If you were to stumble upon the whole microservices thing, without any prior context, you’d be forgiven for thinking it a little strange. Taking an application and splitting it into fragments, […]
One of the most common pain points we hear is around managing the flow and placement of data between datacenters. Almost every Apache Kafka user eventually ends up with clusters […]
This month saw the proposal of a few KIPs which will have a big impact on Apache Kafka’s semantics as well as Kafka’s operability. KIP-95 : Incremental Batch Processing for […]
This year, we were pleased to host the inaugural Kafka Summit, the first global summit for the Apache Kafka community. Kafka Summit 2016 contributed valuable content to help Kafka users […]