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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.
An Overview of Confluent Cloud Security Controls
Whether you are a developer working on a cool new real-time application or an architect formulating the plan to reap the benefits of event streaming for the organisation, the subject […]
Best of Kafka Summit 2020 Roundup
If you know me, you know two things: first, that I am committed to remote work as an effective way to build a company; I’ve been a remote employee for […]
Kafka Summit 2020: Day 1 Recap
Here is what happened on day one of the event—spoiler alert: My first Summit was awesome. This year’s Kafka Summit is my first and I’ve been lucky to have a […]
Project Metamorphosis Month 5: Global Event Streaming in Confluent Cloud
This is the fifth month of Project Metamorphosis: an initiative that addresses the manual toil of running Apache Kafka® by bringing the best characteristics of modern cloud-native data systems to […]
Benchmarking Apache Pulsar, Kafka, and RabbitMQ
Apache Kafka® is one of the most popular event streaming systems. There are many ways to compare systems in this space, but one thing everyone cares about is performance. Kafka […]
How Bolt Has Adopted Change Data Capture with Confluent Platform
This article describes why Bolt, the leading European on-demand transportation platform that operates across ride-hailing, food delivery, and e-mobility sectors, has journeyed toward adopting change data capture (CDC). Adopting CDC […]
Driving Cost Savings in a Rapidly Changing Economy with Event Streaming
As businesses reassess their strategies mid pandemic, some are struggling to adjust to the new normal. The digital divide is growing wider. Leading companies have recognized the massive opportunity in […]
Testing Kafka Streams – A Deep Dive
Tools for automated testing of Kafka Streams applications have been available to developers ever since the technology’s genesis. Although these tools are very useful in practice, this blog post will […]
How to Make the Most of Kafka Summit Virtually
Can you believe that Kafka Summit 2020 is just a week away? The members of the Apache Kafka® community worldwide (literally) are getting ready to discuss the future of event […]
Confluent Announces Offer for Nonprofits Providing COVID-19 Relief
In March, I wrote about Confluent’s commitment to our customers, employees, and community during the COVID-19 pandemic. In some respects, it’s hard to believe that only a few months have […]
Multi-Threaded Message Consumption with the Apache Kafka Consumer
Multithreading is “the ability of a central processing unit (CPU) (or a single core in a multi-core processor) to provide multiple threads of execution concurrently, supported by the operating system.” […]
The Curious Incident of the State Store in Recovery in ksqlDB
When operating cloud infrastructure, “time is money” is more than a cliché—it is interpreted literally as every processing second stacks up on the monthly bill. ksqlDB strives to reduce these […]
Streaming Heterogeneous Databases with Kafka Connect – The Easy Way
Building a Cloud ETL Pipeline on Confluent Cloud shows you how to build and deploy a data pipeline entirely in the cloud. However, not all databases can be in the […]
What’s New in Apache Kafka 2.6
On behalf of the Apache Kafka® community, it is my pleasure to announce the release of Apache Kafka 2.6.0. This another exciting release with many new features and improvements. We’ll […]