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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.
Celebrating 1,000 Employees and Looking Towards the Path Ahead
During the holiday season, it’s a particularly relevant time to pause, reflect, and celebrate, both the days past and those ahead. Here at Confluent, it’s a noticeably nostalgic moment, given […]
Exploring ksqlDB with Twitter Data
When KSQL was released, my first blog post about it showed how to use KSQL with Twitter data. Two years later, its successor ksqlDB was born, which we announced this […]
The Easiest Way to Install Apache Kafka and Confluent Platform – Using Ansible
With Confluent Platform 5.3, we are actively embracing the rising DevOps movement by introducing CP-Ansible, our very own open source Ansible playbooks for deployment of Apache Kafka® and the Confluent […]
Apache Kafka Producer Improvements with the Sticky Partitioner
The amount of time it takes for a message to move through a system plays a big role in the performance of distributed systems like Apache Kafka®. In Kafka, the […]
Testing Kafka Streams Using TestInputTopic and TestOutputTopic
As a test class that allows you to test Kafka Streams logic, TopologyTestDriver is a lot faster than utilizing EmbeddedSingleNodeKafkaCluster and makes it possible to simulate different timing scenarios. Not […]
What’s New in Apache Kafka 2.4
On behalf of the Apache Kafka® community, it is my pleasure to announce the release of Apache Kafka 2.4.0. This release includes a number of key new features and improvements […]
Transferring Avro Schemas Across Schema Registries with Kafka Connect
Although starting out with one Confluent Schema Registry deployment per development environment is straightforward, over time, a company may scale and begin migrating data to a cloud environment (such as […]
Integrating Apache Kafka With Python Asyncio Web Applications
Modern Python has very good support for cooperative multitasking. Coroutines were first added to the language in version 2.5 with PEP 342 and their use is becoming mainstream following the […]
Providing Timely, Reliable, and Consistent Travel Information to Millions of Deutsche Bahn Passengers with Apache Kafka and Confluent Platform
Every day, about 5.7 million rail passengers rely on Deutsche Bahn (DB) to get to their destination. Virtually every one of these passengers needs access to vital trip information, including […]
Conquering Hybrid Cloud with Replicated Event-Driven Architectures
Potential advantages of hybrid cloud architectures include avoiding vendor lock-in, increasing system resilience, optimizing costs, and inducing price competition among cloud providers. Hybrid cloud architectures require the ability to securely […]
Kafka Streams and ksqlDB Compared – How to Choose
ksqlDB is a new kind of database purpose-built for stream processing apps, allowing users to build stream processing applications against data in Apache Kafka® and enhancing developer productivity. ksqlDB simplifies […]
Introducing ksqlDB
Today marks a new release of KSQL, one so significant that we’re giving it a new name: ksqlDB. Like KSQL, ksqlDB remains freely available and community licensed, and you can […]
Using Confluent Platform to Complete a Massive Cloud Provider Migration and Handle Half a Million Events Per Second
In the past 12 months, games and other forms of content made with the Unity platform were installed 33 billion times reaching 3 billion devices worldwide. Apart from our real-time […]
How to Use Single Message Transforms in Kafka Connect
Kafka Connect is the part of Apache Kafka® that provides reliable, scalable, distributed streaming integration between Apache Kafka and other systems. Kafka Connect has connectors for many, many systems, and […]