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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...
Unlock Cost Savings with Freight Clusters–Now in General Availability
Confluent Cloud Freight clusters are now Generally Available on AWS. In this blog, learn how Freight clusters can save you up to 90% at GBps+ scale.
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.
Top 5 Best Practices for Building Event-Driven Architectures Using Confluent and AWS Lambda
Learn the best practices for integrating Confluent with AWS Lambda to build event-driven architectures.
Introducing Confluent Platform 7.5
Learn about Confluent Platform 7.5 and its latest key features: enhancing security with SSO for Control Center, improving developer efficacy with Confluent REST Proxy API v3, and improving disaster recovery capabilities with bidirectional Cluster Linking.
How Let’s Encrypt Powers Confluent Cloud to Automate Its Certificate Operations
Confluent Cloud has chosen Let’s Encrypt as its Certificate Authority and leverages its automation features to spend less time managing certificates and more time building private networking features.
Introducing Software Bill of Materials for Confluent Platform
Confluent Platform 7.4 now includes SBOMs, which gives customers more transparency and control over their software deployments.
Self-Service GitOps for Confluent Cloud
GitOps can work with policy-as-code systems to provide a true self-service model for managing Confluent resources. Policy-as-code is the practice of permitting or preventing actions based on rules and conditions defined in code. In the context of GitOps for Confluent, suitable policies...
How to Source Data From Amazon DynamoDB to Confluent
Amazon DynamoDB is a fully managed, serverless, key-value NoSQL database service that is highly available and scalable. It is designed to deliver single-digit millisecond query performance at any scale. It offers a fast and flexible way to store...
Connect, Process, and Share Trusted Data Faster Than Ever: Kora Engine, Data Quality Rules, and More
Announcing the latest updates to Confluent’s cloud-native data streaming platform: Kora Engine, Data Quality Rules, Custom Connectors, Streaming Sharing, and more.
Kora: The Cloud Native Engine for Apache Kafka
Take a tour of the internals of Confluent’s Apache Kafka® service, powered by Kora: the next-generation, cloud-native streaming engine.
What Makes Confluent the World’s Most Trusted Cloud Data Streaming Platform
Why do our customers choose Confluent as their trusted data streaming platform? In this blog, we will explore our platform’s reliability, durability, scalability, and security by presenting some remarkable statistics and providing insights into our engineering capabilities.
Introducing Confluent Platform 7.4
The blog introduces Confluent Platform 7.4 and its key features, including enhancing scalability, increasing architectural simplicity, accelerating time to market, reducing ops burden, and ensuring high-quality data streams. It also covers what's new in Apache Kafka 3.4.
Create Stream Designer Pipelines with the Confluent CLI and Pipelines API
Use the Confluent CLI and API to create Stream Designer pipelines from SQL source code.
Apache Kafka with Control and Data Planes
This post details how to minimize internal messaging within Confluent platform clusters. Service mesh and containerized applications have popularized the idea of control and data planes. This post applies it to the Confluent platform clusters and highlights its use in Confluent Cloud.
Secure Shared Services with Data Streaming: OAuth, Client Quotas, and more
Announcing the latest updates to Confluent’s cloud-native data streaming platform, centralized identity management, enhanced RBAC, Client Quotas, and more.
Announcing the Source Available Confluent CLI
Confluent is pleased to announce that the Confluent CLI—the leading command-line tool for managing enterprise Kafka deployments and modern data flow—is now source available under the Confluent Community License.