Confluent Blog

Announcing the latest updates to Confluent’s cloud-native data streaming platform, centralized identity management, enhanced RBAC, Client Quotas, and more.

Apache Kafka 3.4 includes early access to ZooKeeper to KRaft migrations, enabling existing Kafka clusters to migrate to KRaft mode and gain scalability and resiliency benefits. Additionally, 3.4 includes several updates to Kafka Core, Streams, Connect, and more.

Confluent is pleased to announce that the Confluent CLI—the leading command-line tool for managing enterprise Kafka deployments and modern data flow—is now source available under the Confluent Community License.

At Treehouse Software, when we speak with customers who are planning to modernize their enterprise mainframe systems, there’s a common theme: they are faced with decades of mission-critical and historical legacy mainframe data in disparate databases,

Building data streaming applications, and growing them beyond a single team is challenging. Data silos develop easily and can be difficult to solve. The tools provided by Confluent’s Stream Governance platform can help break down those walls and make your data accessible to those who need it.

I'm excited to share our intent to acquire Immerok! Together, we’ll build a cloud-native service for Apache Flink that delivers the same simplicity, security, and scalability that you expect from Confluent for Kafka.

Change data capture (CDC) converts all the changes that occur inside your database into events and publishes them to an event stream. You can then use these events to power analytics, drive operational use cases, hydrate databases, and more. The pattern is enjoying wider adoption than ever before.

Capturing tech trends has become a bit tricky these days: whatever industry you’re in, uncertainty abounds. That’s made planning more difficult, but businesses are finding new ways to innovate with emerging technology and respond quickly to fast-changing market conditions.

In this post, we introduce how to use .NET Kafka clients along with the Task Parallel Library to build a robust, high-throughput event streaming application...

Learn what a Kafka® consumer group ID is and how assigning one to Kafka consumers during configuration helps with detecting new data, work sharing, and data recovery.

Self-managing connectors come with major time and resource challenges and taking on unnecessary risks of downtime that shift your team’s focus away from working on more strategic projects and innovations...

Today, 92% of the world’s top 100 banks and 72% of the top 25 retailers use mainframes to deliver secure, highly reliable data for their customers. Citigroup even estimates that while banks spend over $200 billion a year on IT, nearly 80% of that money goes towards maintaining mainframe-dependent

Over the last decade, there’s been a massive movement toward digitization. Enterprises are defining their business models, products, and services to innovate, thrive, and compete by being able to quickly discover, understand, and apply their data assets to power real-time use cases.

If you’ve used Kafka for any amount of time you’ve likely heard about connections; the most common place that they come up is in regard to clients. Sure, producer and consumer clients connect to the cluster to do their jobs, but it doesn’t stop there. Nearly all interactions across a cluster...