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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.
Stable, Secure Apache Kafka as a Service – A Cloud Provider’s Tale
Running fully managed Apache Kafka® as a service brings many responsibilities that leading cloud providers hide well. There is a reason why cloud services are so popular right now— companies realize […]
Building Confluent Cloud – Here’s What We’ve Learned
In July 2017, Confluent launched a private preview of what would later be known as Confluent Cloud. This platform as a service product has grown rapidly; less than three years […]
Building a Cloud ETL Pipeline on Confluent Cloud
As enterprises move more and more of their applications to the cloud, they are also moving their on-prem ETL pipelines to the cloud, as well as building new ones. There […]
15 Things Every Apache Kafka Engineer Should Know About Confluent Replicator
Single-cluster deployments of Apache Kafka® are rare. Most medium to large deployments employ more than one Kafka cluster, and even the smallest use cases include development, testing, and production clusters. […]
Mock APIs vs. Real Backends – Getting the Best of Both Worlds
When building API-driven web applications, there is one key metric that engineering teams should minimize: the blocked factor. The blocked factor measures how much time developers spend in the following […]
Celebrating Over 100 Supported Apache Kafka Connectors
We just released Confluent Platform 5.4, which is one of our most important releases to date in terms of the features we’ve delivered to help enterprises take Apache Kafka® and […]
Apache Kafka as a Service with Confluent Cloud Now Available on Azure Marketplace
Less than six months ago, we announced support for Microsoft Azure in Confluent Cloud, which allows developers using Azure as a public cloud to build event streaming applications with Apache […]
Streaming Machine Learning with Tiered Storage and Without a Data Lake
The combination of streaming machine learning (ML) and Confluent Tiered Storage enables you to build one scalable, reliable, but also simple infrastructure for all machine learning tasks using the Apache […]
Infinite Storage in Confluent Platform
A preview of Confluent Tiered Storage is now available in Confluent Platform 5.4, enabling operators to add an additional storage tier for data in Confluent Platform. If you’re curious about […]
Introducing Confluent Platform 5.4
I am pleased to announce the release of Confluent Platform 5.4. Like any new release of Confluent Platform, it’s packed with features. To make them easier to digest, I want […]
Pipeline to the Cloud – Streaming On-Premises Data for Cloud Analytics
This article shows how you can offload data from on-premises transactional (OLTP) databases to cloud-based datastores, including Snowflake and Amazon S3 with Athena. I’m also going to take the opportunity […]
Apache Kafka as a Service with Confluent Cloud Now Available on GCP Marketplace
Following Google’s announcement to provide leading open source services with a cloud-native experience by partnering with companies like Confluent, we are delighted to share that Confluent Cloud is now available […]
The Easiest Way to Install Apache Kafka and Confluent Platform – Using Ansible
With Confluent Platform 5.3, we are actively embracing the rising DevOps movement by introducing CP-Ansible, our very own open source Ansible playbooks for deployment of Apache Kafka® and the Confluent […]
Transferring Avro Schemas Across Schema Registries with Kafka Connect
Although starting out with one Confluent Schema Registry deployment per development environment is straightforward, over time, a company may scale and begin migrating data to a cloud environment (such as […]