Stream Processing

The principle of least privilege dictates that each user and application will have the minimal privileges required to do their job. When applied to Apache Kafka® and its Streams API, […]

For those of you who are hungry for more stream processing, we are pleased to share the recent release of Confluent’s Stream Processing Cookbook, which features short and tasteful KSQL […]

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, […]

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 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, […]

In this blog post, we show you how to build a demo streaming application with KSQL, the streaming SQL engine for Apache Kafka®. This application continuously computes, in real time, […]

We are happy to announce that our paper Streams and Tables: Two Sides of the Same Coin is published and available for free download. The paper was presented at the […]

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 […]

Confluent’s own Bill Bejeck has recently completed Kafka Streams in Action, a book about building real-time applications and microservices with the Kafka Streams API. The book is scheduled to be available […]

Confluent Cloud™ is a fully-managed streaming data service based on open-source Apache Kafka. With Confluent Cloud, developers can accelerate building mission-critical streaming applications based on a single source of truth. […]

Syslog is one of those ubiquitous standards on which much of modern computing runs. Built into operating systems such as Linux, it’s also commonplace in networking and IoT devices like […]

Life would be simple if data lived in one place: one single solitary database to rule them all. Anything that needed to be joined to anything could be with a […]

We are pleased to announce the release of KSQL v0.5, aka the February 2018 release of KSQL. This release is focused on bug fixes and as well as performance and stability […]

In this blog post, we first look at stream processing examples using KSQL that show how companies are using Apache Kafka® to grow their business and to analyze data in […]