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In this blog post, we’re going to get back to basics and walk through how to get started using Apache Kafka with your Python applications. We will assume some basic […]

In his book Design Patterns Explained, Alan Shalloway compares his car to an umbrella. After all, he uses both to stay dry in the rain. The umbrella has an advantage […]

For many, microservices are built on a protocol of requests and responses. REST etc. This approach is very natural. It is after all the way we write programs: we make […]

We are very excited to share a wealth of streaming news from the past month! If you are looking for an ideal streaming data service that delivers the resilient, scalable […]

Introduction What’s great about the Kafka Streams API is not just how fast your application can process data with it, but also how fast you can get up and running […]

Kafka Summit New York City was the largest gathering of the Apache Kafka community outside Silicon Valley in history. Over 500 “Kafkateers” from 400+ companies and 20 countries converged in […]

Apache Kafka® is the best enterprise streaming platform that runs straight off the shelf. Just point your client applications at your Kafka cluster and Kafka takes care of the rest: […]

Today, I’m really excited to announce Confluent CloudTM, Apache Kafka® as a Service: the simplest, fastest, most robust and cost effective way to run Apache Kafka in the public cloud. […]

The team at Confluent, along with the Apache KafkaTM community, are excited the day is finally here – it’s time for Kafka Summit NYC! We’ll be at the Midtown Hilton […]

Ever wondered what it’s like to run Kafka in production? What about building and deploying microservices that process streams of data in real-time, at large scale?  Or, maybe just the […]

In Q1, Confluent conducted a survey of the Apache Kafka® community and those using streaming platforms to learn about their application of streaming data. This is our second execution of […]

The Google Dataflow team has done a fantastic job in evangelizing their model of handling time for stream processing. Their key observation is that in most cases you can’t globally […]

In our previous post on the Streaming Pipelines track, we highlighted some of the sessions not to be missed at Kafka Summit NYC. As a follow on to that, let’s […]

Here at Confluent, our goal is to ensure every company is successful with their streaming platform deployments. Oftentimes, we’re asked to come in and provide guidance and tips as developers […]