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Kafka Connect is part of Apache Kafka®, providing streaming integration of external systems in and out of Kafka. There are a large number of existing connectors, and you can also […]

One of the great things about using an Apache Kafka® based architecture is that it naturally decouples systems and allows you to use the best tool for the job. While […]

How do you process IoT data, change data capture (CDC) data, or streaming data from sensors, applications, and sources in real time? Apache Kafka® and Apache Spark® are widely adopted […]

Today, we’re delighted to launch the Confluent Community Forum. Built on Discourse, a platform many developers will already be familiar with, this new forum is a place for the community […]

Since I first started using Apache Kafka® eight years ago, I went from being a student who had just heard about event streaming to contributing to the transformational, company-wide event […]

What happens when you let engineers go wild building an application to track the score of a table football game? This blog post shares SPOUD’s story of engineering a simple […]

This a summary of Podium’s technological journey and an example of how our engineering team is tooling ourselves to scale well into the years to come. Here at Podium, we’re […]

Today, I am thrilled to announce a new strategic alliance with Microsoft to enable a seamless, integrated experience between Confluent Cloud and the Azure platform. This represents a significant milestone […]

We launched a transformation initiative three years ago that transitioned SEI Investments from a monolithic database-oriented architecture to a containerized services platform with an event-driven architecture based on Confluent Platform. […]

This year’s pandemic has forced businesses all around the world to adopt a “remote-first” approach to their operations, with an emphasis on better enabling collaboration, remote work, and productivity. This […]

Apache Kafka® is at the core of a large ecosystem that includes powerful components, such as Kafka Connect and Kafka Streams. This ecosystem also includes many tools and utilities that […]

On a recent episode of Streaming Audio, Gwen Shapira, Michael Noll, and Ben Stopford joined me to hold forth about the near future of Apache Kafka® and software architecture in […]

Confluent uses property-based testing to test various aspects of Confluent Cloud’s Tiered Storage feature. Tiered Storage shifts data from expensive local broker disks to cheaper, scalable object storage, thereby reducing […]

Confluent Platform 6.0 was released last year bringing with it many exciting new features to Confluent REST Proxy. Before we dive into what was added, let’s first revisit what REST […]