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One of ksqlDB’s most powerful features is allowing users to build their own ksqlDB functions for processing real-time streams of data. These functions can be invoked on individual messages (user-defined […]

If you are not using fully managed Apache Kafka® in the Confluent Cloud, then this question on Kafka listener configuration comes up on Stack Overflow and such places a lot, so […]

Confluent Cloud, a fully managed event cloud-native streaming service that extends the value of Apache Kafka®, is simple, resilient, secure, and performant, allowing you to focus on what is important—building […]

The internet is not just connecting people around the world. Through the Internet of Things (IoT), it is also connecting humans to the machines all around us and directly connecting […]

At Confluent, we see many of our customers are on AWS, and we’ve noticed that Amazon S3 plays a particularly significant role in AWS-based architectures. Unless a use case actively […]

If you have been using Apache Kafka® for a while, it is likely that you have developed a degree of confidence in the command line tools that come with it. […]

Stream processing is a data processing technology used to collect, store, and manage continuous streams of data as it’s produced or received. Stream processing (also known as event streaming or […]

If you’ve already started designing your real-time streaming applications, you may be ready to test against a real Apache Kafka® cluster. To make it easy to get started with your […]

The principle of least privilege dictates that each user and application will have the minimal privileges required to do their job. When applied to Apache Kafka® and its Streams API, […]

For those of you who are hungry for more stream processing, we are pleased to share the recent release of Confluent’s Stream Processing Cookbook, which features short and tasteful KSQL […]

In this blog post, we show you how to build a demo streaming application with KSQL, the streaming SQL engine for Apache Kafka®. This application continuously computes, in real time, […]

ksqlDB is the event streaming database purpose-built for stream processing applications that enables real-time data processing against Apache Kafka®. ksqlDB makes it easy to read, write and process streaming data […]

As your Apache Kafka® deployment starts to grow, the benefits of using a schema registry quickly become compelling. Confluent Schema Registry, which is included in the Confluent Platform, enables you […]

Apache Kafka and Apache Mesos are very well-known and successful Apache projects. A lot has happened in these projects since Confluent’s last blog post on the topic in July 2015. […]