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We recently published tutorial videos and a series of tweets on the Apache Kafka® platform as we see it. After you hear that there’s a thing called Kafka but before […]

I’m proud to announce the release of Apache Kafka 2.7.0 on behalf of the Apache Kafka® community. The 2.7.0 release contains many new features and improvements. This blog post highlights […]

Microservice architectures continue to grow within engineering organizations as teams strive to increase development velocity. Microservices promote the idea of modularity as a first-class citizen in a distributed architecture, enabling […]

We’re pleased to announce ksqlDB 0.14, one of our most significant releases of the year. This version includes expanded query support over materialized views, incremental schema alteration, variable substitution, additional […]

Consuming messages in parallel is what Apache Kafka® is all about, so you may well wonder, why would we want anything else? It turns out that, in practice, there are […]

Building event streaming applications has never been simpler with ksqlDB. But what is it? ksqlDB is an event streaming database for building stream processing applications. Unlike Kafka Streams, ksqlDB programs […]

This blog post shows how transactional machine learning (TML) integrates data streams with automated machine learning (AutoML), using Apache Kafka® as the data backbone, to create a frictionless machine learning […]

This article covers one crucial piece of every distributed system: visibility. At AppsFlyer, we call ourselves metrics obsessed and truly believe that you cannot know what you cannot see. We […]

If you’re getting started with Apache Kafka® and event streaming applications, you’ll be pleased to see the variety of languages available to start interacting with the event streaming platform. It […]

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 […]

Organizations define standards and policies around the usage of data to ensure the following: Data quality: Data streams follow the defined data standards as represented in schemas Data evolvability: Schemas […]

This is the eighth and final month of Project Metamorphosis: an initiative that brings the best characteristics of modern cloud-native data systems to the Apache Kafka® ecosystem, served from Confluent […]

Due to the distributed architecture of Apache Kafka®, the operational burden of managing it can quickly become a limiting factor on adoption and developer agility. For this reason, it is […]

As part of this year’s Kafka Summit, the Confluent Community team hosted a community hackathon named Kafkathon 2020. The event provided an opportunity for participants to learn, build, and showcase […]