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How to Make the Most of Kafka Summit San Francisco 2019
Kafka Summit San Francisco is just one week away. Conferences can be busy affairs, so here are some tips on getting the most out of your time there. Plan Go […]
Kafka Connect Improvements in Apache Kafka 2.3
With the release of Apache Kafka® 2.3 and Confluent Platform 5.3 came several substantial improvements to the already awesome Kafka Connect. Not sure what Kafka Connect is or need convincing […]
Kafka Listeners – Explained
If you are not using fully managed Apache Kafka® in the Confluent Cloud, then this question on Kafka listener configuration comes up on Stack Overflow and such places a lot, so […]
Dawn of Kafka DevOps: Managing Multi-Cluster Kafka Connect and KSQL with Confluent Control Center
In anything but the smallest deployment of Apache Kafka®, there are often going to be multiple clusters of Kafka Connect and KSQL. Kafka Connect is used for building event streaming […]
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 […]
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 […]
Kafka Connect Deep Dive – JDBC Source Connector
One of the most common integrations that people want to do with Apache Kafka® is getting data in from a database. That is because relational databases are a rich source […]
Kafka Connect Deep Dive – Converters and Serialization Explained
Kafka Connect is part of Apache Kafka®, providing streaming integration between data stores and Kafka. For data engineers, it just requires JSON configuration files to use. There are connectors for […]
ATM Fraud Detection with Apache Kafka and KSQL
Fraud detection is a topic applicable to many industries, including banking and financial sectors, insurance, government agencies and law enforcement and more. Fraud attempts have seen a drastic increase in […]
Troubleshooting KSQL – Part 2: What’s Happening Under the Covers?
Previously in part 1, we saw how to troubleshoot one of the most common issues that people have with KSQL—queries that don’t return data even though data is expected. Here, […]
Troubleshooting KSQL – Part 1: Why Isn’t My KSQL Query Returning Data?
KSQL is the powerful SQL streaming engine for Apache Kafka®. Using SQL statements, you can build powerful stream processing applications. In this article, we’ll see how to troubleshoot some of […]
The Changing Face of ETL
The way in which we handle data and build applications is changing. Technology and development practices have evolved to a point where building systems in isolated silos is somewhat impractical, […]
Data Wrangling with Apache Kafka and KSQL
KSQL, the SQL streaming engine for Apache Kafka®, puts the power of stream processing into the hands of anyone who knows SQL. It’s fun to use for exploring data in […]
We ❤️ syslogs: Real-time syslog processing with Apache Kafka and KSQL – Part 3: Enriching events with external data
Using KSQL, the SQL streaming engine for Apache Kafka®, it’s straightforward to build streaming data pipelines that filter, aggregate, and enrich inbound data. The data could be from numerous sources, […]