Confluent Blog
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.
Confluent and Red Hat Collaborate to Deliver a Cloud-Native Data in Motion Platform for Hybrid Cloud
Today, we are delighted to announce Confluent’s collaboration with Red Hat. This results in a complete, cloud-native experience for application developers and platform operators to set data in motion everywhere […]
Extracting Value from IoT Using Azure Cosmos DB, Azure Synapse Analytics, and Confluent Cloud
Today, an organization’s strategic objective is to deliver innovations for a connected life and to improve the quality of life worldwide. With connected devices comes data, and with data comes […]
Join Us at Google Next to See What’s Next for Confluent
Here at Confluent, we’re excited to once again be participating in Google Cloud Next, taking place from Oct 12-14, and we hope to see you at our virtual booth to […]
Trigger AWS Lambda Functions Directly from an Apache Kafka Topic
The distributed architecture of Apache Kafka® can cause the operational burden of managing it to quickly become a limiting factor for adoption and developer agility. For this reason, it is […]
Announcing ksqlDB 0.21.0
We’re pleased to announce ksqlDB 0.21.0! This release includes a major upgrade to ksqlDB’s foreign-key joins, the new data type BYTES, and a new ARRAY_CONCAT function. All of these features […]
Messaging Modernization with Confluent
Messaging middleware and queues make up a significant portion of legacy enterprise data architectures. Those architectures are buckling under the strain of a range of new requirements involving data volumes […]
What’s New in Apache Kafka 3.0.0
I’m pleased to announce the release of Apache Kafka 3.0 on behalf of the Apache Kafka® community. Apache Kafka 3.0 is a major release in more ways than one. Apache […]
Kafka Summit Americas 2021 Recap
The full inventory of three online Kafka Summits in 2021 is now complete. Kafka Summit Americas wrapped just yesterday. Being a part of the event team and the Program Committee, […]
Getting Started with GraphQL and Apache Kafka
GraphQL and Apache Kafka® are sometimes troubled with misconceptions. One of the reasons for this is that people are often familiar with one but not the other. GraphQL is mostly […]
Confluent Unlocks the Full Power of Event Streams with Stream Governance
Data governance initiatives aim to manage the availability, integrity, and security of data used across an organization. With the explosion in volume, variety, and velocity of data powering the modern […]
Event Sourcing Outgrows the Database
I’ve always found event sourcing to be fascinating. We spend so much of our lives as developers saving data in database tables—doing this in a completely different way seems almost […]
Streaming Machine Learning and Exploration with Confluent and SymetryML
Imagine you’ve been working with Confluent and just got your new streaming pipeline set up to power your new predictive maintenance solution. Next, you look to implement machine learning (ML) […]
Kafka Connect Fundamentals: What is Kafka Connect?
Apache Kafka® is an enormously successful piece of data infrastructure, functioning as the ubiquitous distributed log underlying the modern enterprise. It is scalable, available as a managed service, and has […]
Confluent and VMware Tanzu Partner to Enable Streaming Applications, the Easy Way
Today, we are delighted to announce Confluent’s expanded partnership with VMware Tanzu. Together, we’re offering our joint customers a complete, cloud-native experience for application developers and platform operators to set […]