Confluent Blog

Since college, Senior Manager of Growth Marketing Meshach Cisero has advocated for the Black community by building awareness of and inclusivity for underrepresented people. Below, Meshach discusses how he’s brought that advocacy to the tech industry at Confluent

We are headed back to Las Vegas! Team Confluent is excited and ready to meet you in person at AWS re:Invent 2022, November 28 through December 2. As a Diamond sponsor...

Rebalancing comes into play in Apache Kafka® when consumers join or leave a consumer group. In either case, there is a different number of consumers over which to distribute the partitions from the topic(s), and, so, they must be redistributed and rebalanced....

It can be easy to go about life without thinking about them, but requests are an important part of Apache Kafka; they form the basis of how clients interact with data as it moves into and out of Kafka topics, and, in certain cases, too many requests can have a negative impact on your brokers...

These days, data is at the core of nearly every business decision. But even as the sheer amount of data and formats has skyrocketed, data sources have become more fragmented and distributed than ever.

We are pleased to announce the release of Confluent Platform 7.3. This release accelerates mainframe modernization and unlocks data from legacy systems, increases efficiency while further simplifying management tasks for Apache Kafka^® operators, and makes it easier for developers to...

This blog post explores the need to implement security for your Apache Kafka® cluster, then briefly reviews the security features and advantages of using Confluent Cloud.

When you encounter a problem with Apache Kafka®—for example, an exploding number of connections to your brokers or perhaps some wonky record batching—it’s easy to consider these issues as something to be solved in and of themselves...

"What is our role with Confluent Cloud?” is a valid question frequently asked by service and delivery partners who have traditionally made money from services related to the installation and upkeep of on-prem applications.

Learn how to build an end-to-end motion detection and alerting system using Confluent Cloud, Kafka clusters, and ksqlDB.

Announcing the complete guide to Schema Registry. In our course, you’ll learn the basics, like how schema registry works, key concepts, how to manage schemas, and more!

Joining two topics to aggregate the data is one of the fundamental operations in stream processing. But that's not to say that it's simple. Let me show you what can go wrong!

We are excited to announce the ksqlDB 0.28.2 release as well as new cloud-specific improvements! This release simplifies the getting started experience, helps to run and monitor critical pipelines

Properly designing your events and event streams is essential for any event-driven architecture. Precisely how you design and implement them will significantly affect not only what you can do today