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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.
Building Real-Time Event Streams in the Cloud, On Premises, or Both with Confluent
To the developer or architect seeking to provide their business with as much value as possible, what is the best way to start working with data in motion? Choosing Apache […]
Consistency and Completeness: Rethinking Distributed Stream Processing in Apache Kafka
Stream processing has become an important part of the big data landscape, a new programming paradigm bringing asynchronous, long-lived computations to unbounded data in motion. But many people still think […]
How to Better Manage Apache Kafka by Removing Residue Data with Control Center Cleanup Script
This blog post is the fourth in a four-part series that discusses a few new Confluent Control Center features that are introduced with Confluent Platform 6.2.0. It focuses on removing […]
How to Better Manage Apache Kafka with Improved Topic Inspection via Last-Produced Timestamp
This blog post is the third in a four-part series that discusses a few new Confluent Control Center features that are introduced with Confluent Platform 6.2.0. It focuses on inspecting […]
How to Better Manage Apache Kafka by Exporting Kafka Messages via Control Center
This blog post is the second in a four-part series that discusses a few new Confluent Control Center features that are introduced with Confluent Platform 6.2.0. This blog post focuses […]
How to Better Manage Apache Kafka by Creating Kafka Messages from within Control Center
Managing Apache Kafka® clusters can be tricky sometimes. To solve this problem, Confluent Control Center helps you easily manage and monitor your clusters and interact with other Confluent components, such […]
Introducing Health+ with Confluent Platform 6.2
For a modern, software-defined business, a platform for data in motion is critical to connecting every part of a vast digital architecture across an organization to harness the flow of […]
Confluent’s ksqlDB Is a Strong Performer in The Forrester Wave™: Streaming Analytics, Q2 2021
We are pleased to announce that Confluent has been named a Strong Performer in The Forrester Wave: Streaming Analytics, Q2 2021 report (the report is available to Forrester subscribers or […]
Are We There Yet? The Query Your Database Can’t Answer
What if I told you there is a query your database can’t answer? That would probably surprise you. With decades of effort behind them, databases are one of the most […]
Detecting Patterns of Behaviour in Streaming Maritime AIS Data with Confluent
This is part two in a blog series on streaming a feed of AIS maritime data into Apache Kafka® using Confluent and how to apply it for a variety of […]
Streaming ETL and Analytics on Confluent with Maritime AIS Data
One of the canonical examples of streaming data is tracking location data over time. Whether it’s ride-sharing vehicles, the position of trains on the rail network, or tracking airplanes waking […]
Announcing ksqlDB 0.18.0
We’re pleased to announce ksqlDB 0.18.0! This release includes pull queries on table-table joins and support for variable substitution in the Java client and ksqlDB’s migration tool. We’ll step through […]
Continuous Deployment of Confluent with Ansible Tower
When self-managing Confluent, provisioning and configuring Apache Kafka® deployments along with the rest of the Confluent components involves many hurdles, such as managing infrastructure, installing software, and configuring security. And […]
Modernize Your Business with Confluent’s Connector Portfolio
To win in today’s digital-first world, businesses must deliver exceptional customer experiences and data-driven, backend operations. This requires the ability to react, respond, and adapt to a continuous, ever-changing flow […]