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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.
Scaling Apache Kafka to 10+ GB Per Second in Confluent Cloud
Apache Kafka® is the de facto standard for event streaming today. The semantics of the partitioned consumer model that Kafka pioneered have enabled scale at a level and at a […]
Confluent Hack Day 2020: Hack from Home
At Confluent, every now and then we like to take a day away from our normal sprint tasks to hack. There are a ton of benefits to hack days, including: […]
My Python/Java/Spring/Go/Whatever Client Won’t Connect to My Apache Kafka Cluster in Docker/AWS/My Brother’s Laptop. Please Help!
When a client wants to send or receive a message from Apache Kafka®, there are two types of connection that must succeed: The initial connection to a broker (the […]
Announcing the MongoDB Atlas Sink and Source Connectors in Confluent Cloud
We are excited to announce the preview release of the fully managed MongoDB Atlas source and sink connectors in Confluent Cloud, our fully managed event streaming service based on Apache […]
Real-Time Fleet Management Using Confluent Cloud and MongoDB
Most organisations maintain fleets, a collection of vehicles put to use for day-to-day operations. Telcos use a variety of vehicles including cars, vans, and trucks for service, delivery, and maintenance. […]
Stream Processing with IoT Data: Challenges, Best Practices, and Techniques
The rise of IoT devices means that we have to collect, process, and analyze orders of magnitude more data than ever before. As sensors and devices become ever more ubiquitous, […]
Consistent Metastore Recovery for ksqlDB Using Apache Kafka Transactions
This is the second of a series of posts (part 1 | part 3) that dive deep into key improvements made to ksqlDB to prepare for production availability in Confluent […]
Confluent CLI 1.0 is Now Generally Available for Cloud and Platform
Over a year ago, Confluent set out on a mission to improve user experience by empowering developers, operators, and architects with intuitive command line interfaces (CLIs) for managing their Confluent […]
Elastically Scaling Confluent Platform on Kubernetes
This month, we kicked off Project Metamorphosis by introducing several Confluent features that make Apache Kafka® clusters more elastic—the first of eight foundational traits characterizing cloud-native data systems that map […]
Best Practices to Secure Your Apache Kafka Deployment
For many organizations, Apache Kafka® is the backbone and source of truth for data systems across the enterprise. Protecting your event streaming platform is critical for data security and often […]
Learning All About Wi-Fi Data with Apache Kafka and Friends
Recently, I’ve been looking at what’s possible with streams of Wi-Fi packet capture (pcap) data. I was prompted after initially setting up my Raspberry Pi to capture pcap data and […]
Building a Clickstream Dashboard Application with ksqlDB and Elasticsearch
Using a powerful, event-driven application can help you unlock insights contained in the event streams of your business. Before we get into the technology, let’s go over some questions you […]
Getting Started with Protobuf in Confluent Cloud
Confluent Cloud supports Schema Registry as a fully managed service that allows you to easily manage schemas used across topics, with Apache Kafka® as a central nervous system that connects […]
Kafka Streams Interactive Queries Go Prime Time
What is stopping you from using Kafka Streams as your data layer for building applications? After all, it comes with fast, embedded RocksDB storage, takes care of redundancy for you, […]