ksqlDB

We’re excited to announce ksqlDB 0.17, a big release for 2021. This version adds support for managing the lifecycle of your queries from CI servers, a first-class timestamp data type, […]

I previously showed how to install and set up Apache Kafka® on Windows in minutes by using the Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL 2). From there, it’s only a […]

LiveStreams is a YouTube show about Confluent, real-time data streaming, and related technologies that help you maximize data in motion on any cloud. Every episode of LiveStreams will teach you […]

One of the most highly requested enhancements to ksqlDB is here! Apache Kafka® messages may contain data in message keys as well as message values. Until now, ksqlDB could only […]

We’re pleased to announce ksqlDB 0.15, our first release of 2021! This version adds rich support for message key columns and long-awaited improvement to interactive development with the command line […]

We are pleased to announce the release of Confluent Platform 6.1. With this release, we are further simplifying management tasks for Apache Kafka® operators and providing even higher availability for […]

What happens when you let engineers go wild building an application to track the score of a table football game? This blog post shares SPOUD’s story of engineering a simple […]

Apache Kafka® is at the core of a large ecosystem that includes powerful components, such as Kafka Connect and Kafka Streams. This ecosystem also includes many tools and utilities that […]

We’re pleased to announce ksqlDB 0.14, one of our most significant releases of the year. This version includes expanded query support over materialized views, incremental schema alteration, variable substitution, additional […]

Building event streaming applications has never been simpler with ksqlDB. But what is it? ksqlDB is an event streaming database for building stream processing applications. Unlike Kafka Streams, ksqlDB programs […]

This is the eighth and final month of Project Metamorphosis: an initiative that brings the best characteristics of modern cloud-native data systems to the Apache Kafka® ecosystem, served from Confluent […]

Building data pipelines isn’t always straightforward. The gap between the shiny “hello world” examples of demos and the gritty reality of messy data and imperfect formats is sometimes all too […]

Software engineering memes are in vogue, and nothing is more fashionable than joking about how complicated distributed systems can be. Despite the ribbing, many people adopt them. Why? Distributed systems […]

“Persistent” queries have historically formed the basis of ksqlDB applications, which continuously transform, enrich, aggregate, materialize, and join your Apache Kafka® data using a familiar SQL interface. ksqlDB continuously executes […]