Technology

The global video game market is bigger than the music and film industry combined. It includes Triple-A, casual/mid-core, mobile, and multiplayer online games. Various business models exist, such as hardware […]

As businesses increasingly rely on Apache Kafka® for mission-critical applications, resiliency becomes non-negotiable. Any unplanned downtime and breaches can result in lost revenue, reputation damage, fines or audits, reduced CSAT, […]

Not all telemetry data is created equal, but Health+ can help you prioritize the most important bits. If you’re reading this blog post, it’s quite likely that you are in […]

Apache Kafka® has a rich ecosystem of hundreds of connectors to get data in and out of Kafka. You probably need multiple connectors in your architecture to support data in […]

What is KRaft, and how does it work? Apache Kafka® Raft (KRaft) is the consensus protocol that was introduced to remove Apache Kafka’s dependency on ZooKeeper™ for metadata management. This […]

Networking is a core technology skill set that affects practitioners at all levels and parts of a business, from developers and users who often benefit from learning foundational networking concepts […]

The largest companies in the world use Apache Kafka® for their real-time streaming data pipelines and applications. Kafka is the basis for the real-time fraud text alerts from your bank […]

Wildlife monitoring is critical for keeping track of population changes of vulnerable animals. As part of the Confluent Hackathon ʼ22, I was inspired to investigate if a streaming platform could […]

If you are new to Apache Kafka®, this article is a great way to help you kick-start your first Kafka project and set your data in motion. The best way […]

Serverless stream processing with Apache Kafka® is a powerful yet often underutilized field. Microsoft’s Azure Functions, in combination with ksqlDB and Confluent’s sink connector, provide a powerful and easy-to-use set […]

Back in 2020, so many folks picked up pandemic hobbies—things they could throw themselves into at full force while they were restricted by lockdowns. I chose houseplants. Prior to the […]

The worlds of data integration and data pipelines are changing in ways that are highly reminiscent of the profound changes I witnessed in application and service development over the last twenty years.

Millions of developers code on GitHub, and if you’re one of those developers using it to create Apache Kafka® applications—for which there are 70,000+ Kafka-related repositories—it is natural to integrate […]

We are excited to announce the ksqlDB 0.27.1 release! This iteration brings forth new functionality for dynamic data access against multi-schema topics, a host of improvements relating to working with […]