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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.
From Apache Kafka to Amazon S3: Exactly Once
At Confluent, we see many of our customers are on AWS, and we’ve noticed that Amazon S3 plays a particularly significant role in AWS-based architectures. Unless a use case actively […]
Monitoring Data Replication in Multi-Datacenter Apache Kafka Deployments
Enterprises run modern data systems and services across multiple cloud providers, private clouds and on-prem multi-datacenter deployments. Instead of having many point-to-point connections between sites, the Confluent Platform provides an […]
Announcing Confluent Cloud for Apache Kafka as a Native Service on Google Cloud Platform
I’m excited to announce that we’re partnering with Google Cloud to make Confluent Cloud, our fully managed offering of Apache Kafka®, available as a native offering on Google Cloud Platform […]
Putting Events in Their Place with Dynamic Routing
Event-driven architecture means just that: It’s all about the events. In a microservices architecture, events drive microservice actions. No event, no shoes, no service. In the most basic scenario, microservices […]
KSQL: What’s New in 5.2
KSQL enables you to write streaming applications expressed purely in SQL. There’s a ton of great new features in 5.2, many of which are a result of requests and support […]
Introducing Confluent Platform 5.2
Includes free forever Confluent Platform on a single Apache Kafka® broker, improved Control Center functionality at scale and hybrid cloud streaming We are very excited to announce the general availability […]
Consuming Messages Out of Apache Kafka in a Browser
Imagine a fire hose that spews out trillions of gallons of water every day, and part of your job is to withstand every drop coming out of it. This is […]
The Importance of Distributed Tracing for Apache Kafka Based Applications
Apache Kafka® based applications stand out for their ability to decouple producers and consumers using an event log as an intermediate layer. One result of this is that producers and […]
Kafka Streams’ Take on Watermarks and Triggers
Back in May 2017, we laid out why we believe that Kafka Streams is better off without a concept of watermarks or triggers, and instead opts for a continuous refinement […]
SOA vs. EDA: Is Not Life Simply a Series of Events?
When should you use an API? When should you use an event? Most contemporary software architectures are some mix of these two approaches. I will attempt to articulate in layman’s […]
Kafka Connect Deep Dive – Error Handling and Dead Letter Queues
Kafka Connect is part of Apache Kafka® and is a powerful framework for building streaming pipelines between Kafka and other technologies. It can be used for streaming data into Kafka […]
Spring for Apache Kafka Deep Dive – Part 2: Apache Kafka and Spring Cloud Stream
On the heels of part 1 in this blog series, Spring for Apache Kafka – Part 1: Error Handling, Message Conversion and Transaction Support, here in part 2 we’ll focus […]
CloudBank’s Journey from Mainframe to Streaming with Confluent Cloud
Cloud is one of the key drivers for innovation. Innovative companies experiment with data to come up with something useful. It usually starts with the opening of a firehose that […]
All About the Kafka Connect Neo4j Sink Plugin
Only a little more than one month after the first release, we are happy to announce another milestone for our Kafka integration. Today, you can grab the Kafka Connect Neo4j […]