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We are excited to announce the release of Confluent Cloud Schema Registry in general availability (GA), available in Confluent Cloud, our fully managed event streaming service based on Apache Kafka®. […]

Traditional relational database systems are ubiquitous in software systems. They are surrounded by a strong ecosystem of tools, such as object-relational mappers and schema migration helpers. Relational databases also provide […]

When it comes to writing a connector, there are two things you need to know how to do: how to write the code itself, and helping the world know about […]

With the release of Apache Kafka® 2.3 and Confluent Platform 5.3 came several substantial improvements to the already awesome Kafka Connect. Not sure what Kafka Connect is or need convincing […]

Compliance requirements often dictate that services should not store secrets as cleartext in files. These secrets may include passwords, such as the values for ssl.key.password, ssl.keystore.password, and ssl.truststore.password configuration parameters […]

Yes, the other definition of event sourcing. 1. Keynotes from leading technologists At Kafka Summit SF, you’ll get to hear incredible keynotes from leading technologists, including Jay Kreps and Neha […]

We’re excited to announce Tutorials for Apache Kafka®, a new area of our website for learning event streaming. Kafka Tutorials is a collection of common event streaming use cases, with […]

One of ksqlDB’s most powerful features is allowing users to build their own ksqlDB functions for processing real-time streams of data. These functions can be invoked on individual messages (user-defined […]

The Kafka Streams API boasts a number of capabilities that make it well suited for maintaining the global state of a distributed system. At Imperva, we took advantage of Kafka […]

Delivers the new Confluent Operator for cloud-native automation on Kubernetes, a redesigned Confluent Control Center user interface to simplify how you manage event streams, and a preview of Role-Based Access […]

Using Jaeger tracing, I’ve been able to answer an important question that nearly every Apache Kafka® project that I’ve worked on posed: how is data flowing through my distributed system? […]

The Kafka Summit Program Committee recently published the schedule for the San Francisco event, and there’s quite a bit to look forward to. For starters, it is a two-day event, […]

Together, MongoDB and Apache Kafka® make up the heart of many modern data architectures today. Integrating Kafka with external systems like MongoDB is best done though the use of Kafka […]

Have you ever realized that, according to the latest FBI report, more than 80% of all crimes are property crimes, such as burglaries? And that the FBI clearance figures indicate […]