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 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 […]
Announcing Elastic Data Streams Support for Confluent’s Elasticsearch Sink Connector
Today, as part of our expanded partnership with Elastic, we are announcing an update to the fully managed Elasticsearch Sink Connector in Confluent Cloud. This update allows you to take […]
Driving New Integrations with Confluent and ksqlDB at ACERTUS
When companies need help with their vehicle fleets—including transport, storage, or renewing expired registrations—they don’t want to have to deal with multiple vehicle logistics providers. For these companies, ACERTUS provides […]
How ksqlDB Works: Internal Architecture and Advanced Features
To effectively use ksqlDB, the streaming database for Apache Kafka®, you should of course be familiar with its features and syntax. However, a deeper understanding of what goes on underneath […]
Implement a Cross-Platform Apache Kafka Producer and Consumer with C# and .NET
Sometimes you’d like to write your own code for producing data to an Apache Kafka® topic and connecting to a Kafka cluster programmatically. Confluent provides client libraries for several different […]
Announcing ksqlDB 0.20.0
We’re pleased to announce ksqlDB 0.20.0! The 0.20 ksqlDB release includes support for the DATE and TIME data types, along with functionality for working with these types. The DATE type […]
Confluent and Google Cement Their Ever-Stronger Partnership with Another Smart Analytics Partner of the Year Award
We are thrilled to be named Google Cloud Technology Partner of the Year – Smart Analytics for the third straight year. By building on Google’s open cloud with Confluent’s open […]
Announcing the Confluent Q3 ’21 Release
The Confluent Q3 ‘21 release is here and packed full of new features that enable the world’s most innovative businesses to continue building what keeps them on top: real-time, mission-critical […]
Announcing the Azure Cosmos DB Sink Connector in Confluent Cloud
Today, Confluent is announcing the general availability (GA) of the fully managed Azure Cosmos DB Sink Connector within Confluent Cloud. Now, with just a few simple clicks, you can link […]
Designing and Architecting the Confluent CLI
It is often difficult enough to build one application that talks to a single middleware or backend layer; e.g., a whole team of frontend engineers may build a web application […]