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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.
What’s New in Apache Kafka 2.6
On behalf of the Apache Kafka® community, it is my pleasure to announce the release of Apache Kafka 2.6.0. This another exciting release with many new features and improvements. We’ll […]
Announcing AWS PrivateLink Support in Confluent Cloud
We’re happy to announce that Confluent Cloud, our fully managed event streaming service powered by Apache Kafka®, now supports AWS PrivateLink for secure network connectivity, in addition to the existing […]
Project Metamorphosis Month 4: Confluent Cloud for Apache Kafka Available Everywhere
We launched Project Metamorphosis in April with the goal of making it dramatically easier for organizations to leverage an event streaming platform for their business needs. By reimagining event streaming […]
Announcing ksqlDB 0.11.0
We’re pleased to announce ksqlDB 0.11.0, which takes a big step forward toward improved production stability. This is becoming increasingly important as companies like Bolt and PushOwl use ksqlDB for […]
How Tencent PCG Uses Apache Kafka to Handle 10 Trillion+ Messages Per Day
As one of the world’s biggest internet-based platform companies, Tencent uses technology to enrich the lives of users and assist the digital upgrade of enterprises. An example product is the […]
I’ve Got the Key, I’ve Got the Secret. Here’s How Keys Work in ksqlDB 0.10.
ksqlDB 0.10 includes significant changes and improvements to how keys are handled. This is part of a series of enhancements that began with support for non-VARCHAR keys and will ultimately […]
Analysing Changes with Debezium and Kafka Streams
Change Data Capture (CDC) is an excellent way to introduce streaming analytics into your existing database, and using Debezium enables you to send your change data through Apache Kafka®. Although […]
Exponential Increases in Value Flow from Greater Maturity in Event Streaming
Whether your organization needs simple pub/sub messaging, real-time data analytics, or a complete digital transformation, event streaming technology brings a myriad of benefits for the new era of big data. […]
How PushOwl Uses ksqlDB to Scale Their Analytics and Reporting Use Cases
Using a declarative SQL-like interface, ksqlDB makes it easy to integrate event streaming applications into any tech stack. This article illustrates how ksqlDB was added to PushOwl’s Python tech stack, […]
Improved Robustness and Usability of Exactly-Once Semantics in Apache Kafka
This blog post talks about the recent improvements on exactly-once semantics (EOS) to make it simpler to use and more resilient. EOS was first released in Apache Kafka® 0.11 and […]
Data Enrichment in ksqlDB Using UDTFs
This blog post applies to ksqlDB version 0.8.1 and later. Keeping a datacenter up and running is no walk in the park. It’s a job that involves mind-boggling amounts of […]
Apache Kafka as a Service with Confluent Cloud Now Available on AWS Marketplace
You may already know that Confluent Cloud is available across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, allowing you to access the amazing stack built by Confluent including a battle-tested version of […]
Data Privacy, Security, and Compliance for Apache Kafka
Why data privacy for Apache Kafka®? As companies seek to leverage all forms of data for competitive advantage, there is a growing regulatory and reputational risk that calls for the […]
Measuring and Monitoring a Stream Processing Cloud Service: Inside Confluent Cloud ksqlDB
While preparing for the launch of Confluent Cloud ksqlDB, the ksqlDB Team built a system of metrics and monitoring that enabled insight into the experience of operating ksqlDB, the associated […]