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Change data capture (CDC) converts all the changes that occur inside your database into events and publishes them to an event stream. You can then use these events to power analytics, drive operational use cases, hydrate databases, and more. The pattern is enjoying wider adoption than ever before.

I'm excited to share our intent to acquire Immerok! Together, we’ll build a cloud-native service for Apache Flink that delivers the same simplicity, security, and scalability that you expect from Confluent for Kafka.

Capturing tech trends has become a bit tricky these days: whatever industry you’re in, uncertainty abounds. That’s made planning more difficult, but businesses are finding new ways to innovate with emerging technology and respond quickly to fast-changing market conditions.

In this post, we introduce how to use .NET Kafka clients along with the Task Parallel Library to build a robust, high-throughput event streaming application...

Learn what a Kafka consumer group ID is and how assigning one to Kafka consumers during configuration helps with detecting new data, work sharing, and data recovery.

Self-managing connectors come with major time and resource challenges and taking on unnecessary risks of downtime that shift your team’s focus away from working on more strategic projects and innovations...

Today, 92% of the world’s top 100 banks and 72% of the top 25 retailers use mainframes to deliver secure, highly reliable data for their customers. Citigroup even estimates that while banks spend over $200 billion a year on IT, nearly 80% of that money goes towards maintaining mainframe-dependent

Over the last decade, there’s been a massive movement toward digitization. Enterprises are defining their business models, products, and services to innovate, thrive, and compete by being able to quickly discover, understand, and apply their data assets to power real-time use cases.

If you’ve used Kafka for any amount of time you’ve likely heard about connections; the most common place that they come up is in regard to clients. Sure, producer and consumer clients connect to the cluster to do their jobs, but it doesn’t stop there. Nearly all interactions across a cluster...

Setting up proactive, synthetic monitoring is critical for complex, distributed systems like Apache Kafka®, especially when deployed on Kubernetes and where the end-user experience is concerned, and is paramount for healthy real-time data pipelines...

Businesses are generating more data than ever on a daily basis. As a result, many enterprises are undergoing a digital transformation that centers on their ability to contextualize and harness the value of their data in real time.

This Thanksgiving-themed blog post walks through a brand new stream processing use case recipe for analyzing survey responses in real-time and gives ideas for how to spice it up and make the recipe your own!

The call for papers for Kafka Summit London 2023 has opened, and we’re looking to hear about your experiences using and working with Kafka. Every great technical talk starts with an experience. If you’re stuck looking for ideas on what to talk about, write what you know...

Confluent Cloud hosts Apache Kafka®, Kafka Connect, ksqlDB, and more. Here’s how we re-architected the system for a new deployment platform with zero downtime...