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Data Products, Data Contracts, and Change Data Capture
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...
Introducing Confluent Cloud Freight Clusters
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.
Contributing to Apache Kafka®: How to Write a KIP
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.
Handling GDPR with Apache Kafka: How does a log forget?
If you follow the press around Apache Kafka you’ll probably know it’s pretty good at tracking and retaining messages, but sometimes removing messages is important too. GDPR is a good […]
Toward a Functional Programming Analogy for Microservices
Microservices are all the rage these days. Passionate, thoughtful advocates and detractors present compelling arguments for and against the architectural style. Usually, these arguments boil down to whether organizations should adopt, refrain from, or abandon microservices...
Introducing Confluent Platform 4.0
I am very excited to announce the general availability of Confluent Platform 4.0, the enterprise distribution of Apache Kafka 1.0. This release includes a number of significant improvements, including enhancements […]
Confluent Cloud: Enterprise-Ready, Hosted Apache Kafka is Here!
Today, 40,000 people in Las Vegas are thinking about the Cloud—not because the weather is dry in Nevada, but because AWS re:Invent is in full force. Today is a perfect […]
November Update of KSQL Developer Preview Available
Update: KSQL is now available as a component of the Confluent Platform. Today we are releasing the first update to KSQL since its launch as a Developer Preview at Kafka […]
Transactions in Apache Kafka
Note For the latest, check out Building Systems Using Transactions in Apache Kafka on Confluent Developer.
Building a Microservices Ecosystem with Kafka Streams and KSQL
Today, we invariably operate in ecosystems: groups of applications and services which together work towards some higher level business goal. When we make these systems event-driven they come with a […]
Taking KSQL for a Spin Using Real-time Device Data
We are pleased to invite Tom Underhill to join us as a guest blogger. Tom is Head of R&D at Rittman Mead, a data and analytics company who specialise in […]
Apache Kafka Goes 1.0
It has been seven years since we first set out to create the distributed streaming platform we know now as Apache Kafka®. Born initially as a highly scalable messaging system, […]
The London Kafka Summit 2018 Call for Papers is Open!
After three successful Kafka Summits in the United States in 2016 and 2017, we decided the Kafka community was ready to have a Summit in London. And based on the […]
Running Kafka Streams Applications in AWS
This guest blog post is the second in a series about the use of Apache Kafka’s Streams API by Zalando, Europe’s largest online fashion retailer. See Ranking Websites in Real-time […]
Ranking Websites in Real-time with Apache Kafka’s Streams API
This article is by Hunter Kelly, Technical Architect at Zalando. Hunter enjoys using technology, and in particular machine learning, to solve difficult problems. He’s a graduate of the University of […]
Predicting Flight Arrivals with the Apache Kafka Streams API
Kafka Streams makes it easy to write scalable, fault-tolerant, and real-time production apps and microservices. This post builds upon a previous post that covered scalable machine learning with Apache Kafka, […]
Getting Started Analyzing Twitter Data in Apache Kafka through KSQL
KSQL is the streaming SQL engine for Apache Kafka®. It lets you do sophisticated stream processing on Kafka topics, easily, using a simple and interactive SQL interface. In this short […]