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.
Ansible Playbooks for Confluent Platform
Here at Confluent, we want to see each Confluent Platform installation be successful right from the start. That means going beyond beautiful APIs and spectacular stream processing features. We want […]
Apache Kafka vs. Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) – Friends, Enemies or Frenemies?
Typically, an enterprise service bus (ESB) or other integration solutions like extract-transform-load (ETL) tools have been used to try to decouple systems. However, the sheer number of connectors, as well […]
June Preview Release: Packing Confluent Platform with the Features You Requested!
We are very excited to announce Confluent Platform June 2018 Preview. This is our most feature-packed preview release for Confluent Platform since we started doing our monthly preview releases in […]
We ❤️ syslogs: Real-time syslog processing with Apache Kafka and KSQL – Part 3: Enriching events with external data
Using KSQL, the SQL streaming engine for Apache Kafka®, it’s straightforward to build streaming data pipelines that filter, aggregate, and enrich inbound data. The data could be from numerous sources, […]
Stream Processing Made Easy With Confluent Cloud and KSQL
Confluent Cloud™ is a fully-managed streaming data service based on open-source Apache Kafka. With Confluent Cloud, developers can accelerate building mission-critical streaming applications based on a single source of truth. […]
Introducing Confluent Hub
Today we’re delighted to announce the launch of Confluent Hub. Confluent Hub is a place for the Apache Kafka and Confluent Platform community to come together and share the components […]
May Preview Release: Advancing KSQL and Schema Registry
We are very excited to announce the Confluent Platform May 2018 Preview release! The May Preview introduces powerful new capabilities for KSQL and the Schema Registry UI. Read on to […]
Analytics on Bare Metal: Xenon and Kafka Connect
The following post is a guest blog from Tushar Sudhakar Jee, Software Engineer, Levyx responsible for Kafka infrastructure. You may find this post also on Levyx’s blog. Abstract As part […]
Introducing Self-Service Apache Kafka for Developers
New Confluent Cloud and Ecosystem Expansion to Google Cloud Platform The vision for Confluent Cloud is simple. We want to provide an event streaming service to support all customers on […]
Visualizations on Apache Kafka Made Easy with KSQL
We’re pleased to welcome our partner Arcadia Data to the Confluent blog today. Shant Hovsepian is the CTO and co-founder of Arcadia Data, and is going to tell us about […]
Rounding Up Kafka Summit London 2018
It has only been two weeks since the inaugural Kafka Summit London, and I’m sure many of you who attended are still internalizing what you learned there. But what about […]
Level Up Your KSQL
Now that KSQL is available for production use as a part of the Confluent Platform, it has never been easier to run the open-source streaming SQL engine for Apache Kafka®. […]
Introducing the Confluent Operator: Apache Kafka on Kubernetes Made Simple
At Confluent, our mission is to put a Streaming Platform at the heart of every digital company in the world. This means, making it easy to deploy and use Apache […]
Introducing Confluent Platform Preview Releases
Download Confluent Platform preview release Historically, Confluent delivers a new release of Confluent Platform three times per year. While this cadence meets the needs of a meaningful portion of our […]