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Introducing Confluent Private Cloud: Cloud-Level Agility for Your Private Infrastructure
Confluent Private Cloud (CPC) is a new software package that extends Confluent’s cloud-native innovations to your private infrastructure. CPC offers an enhanced broker with up to 10x higher throughput and a new Gateway that provides network isolation and central policy enforcement without client...
Queues for Apache Kafka® Is Here: Your Guide to Getting Started in Confluent
Confluent announces the General Availability of Queues for Kafka on Confluent Cloud and Confluent Platform with Apache Kafka 4.2. This production-ready feature brings native queue semantics to Kafka through KIP-932, enabling organizations to consolidate streaming and queuing infrastructure while...
New in Confluent Intelligence: A2A, Multivariate Anomaly Detection, Vector Search for Cosmos DB, Amazon S3 Vectors, and More
Explore new Confluent Intelligence features: A2A integration, multivariate anomaly detection, vector search for Cosmos DB and S3 Vectors, Private Link, and MCP support.
Getting Started with the Confluent Terraform Provider
As part of our recent Q3 Launch for Confluent Cloud we announced the general availability of the Confluent Terraform Provider. HashiCorp Terraform is an Infrastructure as Code tool that lets […]
Event-Driven Microservices with Python and Apache Kafka
Our journey with microservices, so far… Back in the days before microservices, we used to build applications that were often hosted in application servers such as WebLogic or WebSphere (apologies […]
Keeping Multiple Databases in Sync Using Kafka Connect and CDC
Microservices architectures have now been widely adopted among developers, and with a great degree of success. However, drawbacks do exist. Data silos can arise where information processed by one microservice […]
Explore Real-Time Data Streaming Fundamentals and Use Cases at Current 2022
Today, 97% of organizations are using data streams to transform how their frontend applications and backend operations adapt to new information in real time. Companies are using data streams to […]
Real-Time Gaming Infrastructure for Millions of Users with Apache Kafka, ksqlDB, and WebSockets
The global video game market is bigger than the music and film industry combined. It includes Triple-A, casual/mid-core, mobile, and multiplayer online games. Various business models exist, such as hardware […]
EMEA Sales Operations Thrives as Confluent Grows
A year after Confluent launched an initial public offering, the company continues to expand at an extraordinary rate. The Europe, Middle East, and Africa Sales Operations team is at the […]
6 Ways Data Streaming is Transforming Financial Services
It should come as no surprise that financial services (FinServ) organizations are fiercely driven when it comes to earning market share. After all, the FinServ industry is projected to reach […]
Asking the Experts: 3 Reasons for Data Pros to Attend Current 2022
This October, Confluent is hosting Current 2022: The Next Generation of Kafka Summit, gathering industry experts, influencers, and thought leaders from across the data streaming ecosystem. But what’s in it […]
Real-Time Database Streaming with Confluent and Amazon Aurora
Hello there, we are glad you are here with us in this blog post today. We will be taking a journey by using Confluent technology to efficiently migrate data from […]
Leave Apache Kafka Reliability Worries Behind with Confluent Cloud’s 10x Resiliency
As businesses increasingly rely on Apache Kafka® for mission-critical applications, resiliency becomes non-negotiable. Any unplanned downtime and breaches can result in lost revenue, reputation damage, fines or audits, reduced CSAT, […]
What’s New in Health+: 7 New Dashboards, 70% Monitoring Infra Savings
Not all telemetry data is created equal, but Health+ can help you prioritize the most important bits. If you’re reading this blog post, it’s quite likely that you are in […]
Declarative Connectors with Confluent for Kubernetes
Apache Kafka® has a rich ecosystem of hundreds of connectors to get data in and out of Kafka. You probably need multiple connectors in your architecture to support data in […]
Celebrate Back-to-School Season With Data Streaming Basics
Back-to-school season brings the promise of learning new concepts, connecting with peers, and finding inspiration. For those of us in the world of tech, there’s always something new to learn. […]
Getting Started with the KRaft Protocol
What is KRaft, and how does it work? Apache Kafka® Raft (KRaft) is the consensus protocol that was introduced to remove Apache Kafka’s dependency on ZooKeeper™ for metadata management. This […]