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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.
What’s New in Confluent Cloud Security
Note: Please see the blog post Introducing Cluster RBAC, Audit Logs, and BYOK for Enterprise-Grade Security for the latest updates.
Cloud-Like Flexibility and Infinite Storage with Confluent Tiered Storage and FlashBlade from Pure Storage
With the release of Confluent Platform 6.0, we officially made Tiered Storage generally available. At launch, we supported two major cloud-specific object stores: Amazon S3 and Google Cloud Storage. Today, […]
Getting Started with Kafka Connect for New Relic
It’s 3:00 am and PagerDuty keeps firing you alerts about your application being down. You need to figure out what the issue is, if it’s impacting users, and resolve it […]
Project Metamorphosis Month 6: Secure Apache Kafka in Confluent Cloud
The cloud opens up exciting new opportunities for information gathering, analysis, and sharing that can make every organization’s products and services better. Thanks to the cloud and its decentralized nature, […]
Restoring Balance to the Cluster: Self-Balancing Clusters in Confluent Platform 6.0
Apache Kafka® scales well. A Kafka cluster can grow to tens or hundreds of brokers and easily sustain tens of GB per second of read and write traffic. But scaling […]
Introducing Cluster Linking in Confluent Platform 6.0
With the release of Confluent Platform 6.0 comes a preview of Confluent Cluster Linking available to self-managed customers and in Confluent Cloud for our early access partners. Cluster Linking is […]
Introducing Confluent Platform 6.0
Each month, we’ve announced a set of Confluent features organized around what we think are the key foundational traits of cloud-native data systems as part of Project Metamorphosis. Data systems […]
Infrastructure Modernization with Google Anthos and Apache Kafka
The promise of cloud computing is simplicity, speed, and cost savings. But what about workloads that can’t move to the cloud? Are they stuck using expensive legacy tooling and practices? […]
Using the Fully Managed MongoDB Atlas Connector in a Secure Environment
Since the MongoDB Atlas source and sink became available in Confluent Cloud, we’ve received many questions around how to set up these connectors in a secure environment. By default, MongoDB […]
Streaming Data from Apache Kafka into Azure Data Explorer with Kafka Connect
Near-real-time insights have become a de facto requirement for Azure use cases involving scalable log analytics, time series analytics, and IoT/telemetry analytics. Azure Data Explorer (also called Kusto) is the […]
Confluent Is Now Certified Ready on AWS Outposts
Are you looking for a way to run AWS services on premises in your own datacenter? I am excited to share today that we have completed validation of support for […]
Deploying Confluent Operator on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform on AWS
Confluent Operator allows you to deploy and manage Confluent Platform as a cloud-native, stateful container application on Kubernetes and OpenShift. The automation provided by Kubernetes, Operator, and Helm greatly simplifies […]
Enabling the Deployment of Event-Driven Architectures Everywhere Using Microsoft Azure and Confluent Cloud
Hybrid cloud architecture and accelerated cloud migrations are becoming the norm rather than the exception, as our increasingly digital world introduces certain challenges along the way, including modernizing existing application/architecture, […]
Creating a Serverless Environment for Testing Your Apache Kafka Applications
If you are taking your first steps with Apache Kafka®, looking at a test environment for your client application, or building a Kafka demo, there are two “easy button” paths […]