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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.
Confluent Platform 4.1 with Production-Ready KSQL Now Available
We are pleased to announce that Confluent Platform 4.1, our enterprise streaming platform built on Apache Kafka®, is available for download today. With Confluent Platform, you get the latest in […]
Apache Mesos, Apache Kafka and Kafka Streams for Highly Scalable Microservices
Apache Kafka and Apache Mesos are very well-known and successful Apache projects. A lot has happened in these projects since Confluent’s last blog post on the topic in July 2015. […]
The Blog Post on Monitoring an Apache Kafka Deployment to End Most Blog Posts
Confluent Platform is the central nervous system for a business, uniting your organization around a Kafka-based single source of truth. Apache Kafka® has been in production at thousands of companies […]
Monitoring Apache Kafka with Confluent Control Center Video Tutorials
Mission critical applications built on Kafka need a robust and Kafka-specific monitoring solution that is performant, scalable, durable, highly available, and secure. Confluent Control Center helps monitor your Kafka deployments […]
Introducing Confluent Platform 4.0
I am very excited to announce the general availability of Confluent Platform 4.0, the enterprise distribution of Apache Kafka 1.0. This release includes a number of significant improvements, including enhancements […]
Confluent Cloud: Enterprise-Ready, Hosted Apache Kafka is Here!
Today, 40,000 people in Las Vegas are thinking about the Cloud—not because the weather is dry in Nevada, but because AWS re:Invent is in full force. Today is a perfect […]
Disaster Recovery for Multi-Datacenter Apache Kafka Deployments
Datacenter downtime and data loss can result in businesses losing a vast amount of revenue or entirely halting operations. To minimize the downtime and data loss resulting from a disaster, […]
We’ll Say This Exactly Once: Confluent Platform 3.3 is Available Now
Confluent Platform and Apache Kafka® have come a long way from the time of their origin story. Like superheroes finding out they have powers, the latest updates always seem to […]
Announcing Confluent Cloud: Apache Kafka® as a Service
Today, I’m really excited to announce Confluent CloudTM, Apache Kafka® as a Service: the simplest, fastest, most robust and cost effective way to run Apache Kafka in the public cloud. […]
Securing the Confluent Schema Registry for Apache Kafka®
Note: The blog post Ensure Data Quality and Data Evolvability with a Secured Schema Registry contains more recent information. If you use Apache Kafka to integrate and decouple different data […]
Confluent 3.2 with Apache Kafka® 0.10.2 Now Available
We’re excited to announce the release of Confluent 3.2, our enterprise streaming platform built on Apache Kafka. At Confluent, our vision is to provide a comprehensive, enterprise-ready streaming platform that […]
Confluent Delivers Upgrades to Clients, The streams API in Kafka, Brokers and Apache Kafka™ 0.10.1.1
Last November, we released Confluent 3.1, with new connectors, clients, and Enterprise features. Today, we’re pleased to announce Confluent 3.1.2, a patch release which incorporates the latest stable version of […]
Enterprise Streaming Multi-Datacenter Replication using Apache Kafka
One of the most common pain points we hear is around managing the flow and placement of data between datacenters. Almost every Apache Kafka user eventually ends up with clusters […]
Announcing the Availability of Confluent Platform in Azure Marketplace
Confluent and Microsoft are pleased to announce the successful integration of Confluent Platform into Microsoft’s Azure Marketplace. Users can now rapidly deploy a complete Confluent Platform cluster with the click […]