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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.
Debuting a Modern C++ API for Apache Kafka
Morgan Stanley uses Apache Kafka® to publish market data to internal clients and to persist it for replay purposes. We started out using librdkafka’s C++ API, which maintains C++98 compatibility. […]
Confluent and Elastic Partner to Deliver Optimized Search and Real-Time Analytics
Today, I am delighted to announce an expanded partnership with Elastic. Together, we’re enabling our joint customers to set data in motion, and through that, deliver optimized search, real-time analytics, […]
Improving TCO and ROI with Confluent’s Cloud-Native Service for Apache Kafka
There are two basic models for evaluating the cost of any technology. Organizations often gravitate to return on investment (ROI) because it models a clear financial return. Total cost of […]
Setting Up Secure Networking in Confluent with Azure Private Link
We’re happy to announce that Confluent Cloud, our cloud-native service for Apache Kafka®, now supports Azure Private Link for secure network connectivity, in addition to the existing Azure Virtual Network […]
Apache Kafka Made Simple: A First Glimpse of a Kafka Without ZooKeeper
At the heart of Apache Kafka® sits the log—a simple data structure that uses sequential operations that work symbiotically with the underlying hardware. Efficient disk buffering and CPU cache usage,...
Monitoring Your Event Streams: Integrating Confluent with Prometheus and Grafana
Self-managing a highly scalable distributed system with Apache Kafka® at its core is not an easy feat. That’s why operators prefer tooling such as Confluent Control Center for administering and […]
How to Run Confluent on Windows in Minutes
I previously showed how to install and set up Apache Kafka® on Windows in minutes by using the Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL 2). From there, it’s only a […]
Integrating Azure and Confluent: Real-Time Search Powered by Azure Cache for Redis and Spring Cloud
Self-managing a distributed system like Apache Kafka®, along with building and operating Kafka connectors, is complex and resource intensive. It requires significant Kafka skills and expertise in the development and […]
Why You Need to Move to a Cloud-Native Apache Kafka Service Right Now
Harnessing your data in motion is critical to building the rich customer experiences and data-driven operations that provide a competitive advantage for your business. But the management burden on you […]
Learning with LiveStreams: Cloud-Native Apache Kafka and Serverless Stream Processing
LiveStreams is a YouTube show about Confluent, real-time data streaming, and related technologies that help you maximize data in motion on any cloud. Every episode of LiveStreams will teach you […]
Integrating Azure and Confluent: Ingesting Data to Azure Cosmos DB through Apache Kafka
Building cross-platform solutions enables organizations to leverage technology driven by real-time data and enabled with both highly available services and low-latency databases hosted on Microsoft Azure. Azure Cosmos DB is […]
Securing the Infrastructure of Confluent with HashiCorp Vault
In order for a technology like Confluent Cloud to make it easy to set data in motion, many different software systems are required to interact with each other using API […]
Integrating Apache Kafka Clients with CNCF Jaeger at Funding Circle Using OpenTelemetry
At Funding Circle, we rely heavily on Kafka as the main piece of infrastructure to enable our event-driven-based microservices architecture. There are numerous organizational benefits of microservices, however a key […]
How to Tune RocksDB for Your Kafka Streams Application
Apache Kafka ships with Kafka Streams, a powerful yet lightweight client library for Java and Scala to implement highly scalable and elastic applications and microservices that process and analyze data […]