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Learn why data at rest sometimes needs to be transformed into a stream of data, and learn how to turn a REST API into a data stream using Apache Flink and Apache Kafka. Along the way, you’ll also find out the advantages of having your REST API data in streaming format.

Part two in the series on using FlinkSQL, Kafka, and Streamlit dives into async.io, FlinkSQL syntax, and Streamlit barchart component structure.

In part 1 of this series, we’ll make an app, powered by Kafka and FlinkSQL in Confluent Cloud and visualized with Streamlit, that allows a user to select a stock, in this case SPY, or the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust. Upon selection, a live chart of the stock’s bid prices, calculated every five seconds...

The post discusses the Dual-Write Problem in distributed systems, where atomic updates across multiple systems like databases and messaging systems (e.g., Apache Kafka) are challenging, leading to potential inconsistencies. It outlines common anti-patterns that fail to address the issue...

The blog post delves into best practices and recommendations for utilizing the Confluent Terraform Provider. It offers insights on efficiently provisioning resources within Confluent Cloud infrastructure while ensuring adherence to industry standards. Additionally, it provides a GitHub repository...

Analyzing Confluent Cloud audit logs is good, but being proactively informed once something suspicious is happening is better. This article provides a conceptual guide for developing a pipeline that transfers Confluent Cloud audit logs into Splunk and defines automatic alerts based on certain events

Apache Kafka® has become the de facto standard for data streaming, used by organizations everywhere to anchor event-driven architectures and power mission-critical real-time applications.

Confluent’s OpenSearch Sink Connector lets you easily send events to AWS OpenSearch and others—enabling fraud detection, log analytics, social media monitoring & GenAI w/RAG.

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.

Today, we are excited to announce that Amazon EventBridge has joined the Connect with Confluent program, marking it the third AWS service to become part of this collaborative effort.

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 create a docker-compose.yml file for Kafka using Kafka Docker Composer. Set up clusters, perform failover testing, and more with this guide.

Learn about the bits and bytes of what happens behind the scenes in the Apache Kafka producer and consumer clients when communicating with the Schema Registry and serializing and deserializing messages.

The rise of fully managed cloud services fundamentally changed the technology landscape and introduced benefits like increased flexibility, accelerated deployment, and reduced downtime. Confluent offers a portfolio of fully managed...