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Confluent Cloud supports Schema Registry as a fully managed service that allows you to easily manage schemas used across topics, with Apache Kafka® as a central nervous system that connects […]

What is stopping you from using Kafka Streams as your data layer for building applications? After all, it comes with fast, embedded RocksDB storage, takes care of redundancy for you, […]

Currently, Apache Kafka® uses Apache ZooKeeper™ to store its metadata. Data such as the location of partitions and the configuration of topics are stored outside of Kafka itself, in a […]

We’re pleased to announce the release of ksqlDB 0.9.0! This version includes support for multi-join statements, enhanced LIKE expressions, and a host of usability improvements. We’ll go through a few […]

Imagine you’ve got a stream of data; it’s not “big data,” but it’s certainly a lot. Within the data, you’ve got some bits you’re interested in, and of those bits, […]

Everyone wants their infrastructure to be highly available, and ksqlDB is no different. But crucial properties like high availability don’t come without a thoughtful, rigorous design. We thought hard about […]

Earning customer love is a core value at Confluent, and like all relationships, listening makes the love flourish. When it comes to monitoring, we’ve heard you, and we are pleased […]

A few weeks ago when we talked about our new fundraising, we also announced we’d be kicking off Project Metamorphosis. What is Project Metamorphosis? Let me try to explain. I […]

One of the most critical aspects of any scale-out database is its availability to serve queries during partial failures. Business-critical applications require some measure of resilience to be able to […]

Consumer shopping patterns have changed drastically in the last few years. Shopping in a physical store is no longer the only way. Retail shopping experiences have evolved to include multiple […]

The ksqlDB Engineering Team has been hard at work preparing ksqlDB for production availability in Confluent Cloud. This is the first in a series of posts that deep dives into […]

Measuring coverage of Go code is an easy task with the built-in go test tool, but for tests that run a binary, like end-to-end tests, there’s no obvious way to […]

As you know, we were looking forward to welcoming the Apache Kafka® community to Austin, TX, for Kafka Summit in August. Meeting together in person is always the best way […]

Mainframes are still ubiquitous, used for almost every financial transaction around the world—credit card transactions, billing, payroll, etc. You might think that working on mainframe software would be dull, requiring […]