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KCP: How to Migrate to Confluent Cloud in Days, Not Weeks
Learn how to migrate to Confluent Cloud in hours using Confluent’s open source Kafka Copy Paste tool. Get an in-depth introduction to the KCP tool and a walk-through of the four steps of migrating from MSK to Confluent Cloud using the tool.
AI Tools for Builders — Confluent's MCP Server & Agent Skills
Confluent's AI developer tools are now GA: an open-source local MCP server, a managed MCP server, and Agent Skills. Together they give AI coding assistants direct access to your streaming platform — the tools to act on it and the domain knowledge to build correctly.
New in Confluent Intelligence and AI Tools: Making Agents Native to the Stream, Expanded Model Support, New Agent Skills, and Copilot
Explore new AI features and AI tools: support for IBM Granite Time Series models and TimesFM models (EA), enhanced Real-Time Context Engine experience, new Agent Skills, Confluent Copilot
Kafka Streams and KSQL with Minimum Privileges
The principle of least privilege dictates that each user and application will have the minimal privileges required to do their job. When applied to Apache Kafka® and its Streams API, […]
3 Ways to Prepare for Disaster Recovery in Multi-Datacenter Apache Kafka Deployments
Imagine: Disaster strikes—catastrophic hardware failure, software failure, power outage, denial of service attack or some other event causes one datacenter with an Apache Kafka® cluster to completely fail. Yet Kafka […]
Streaming in the Clouds: Where to Start
Only a few years ago, when someone said they had a “cloud-first strategy,” you knew exactly who their new preferred vendor was. These days, however, the story is a lot […]
Using Apache Kafka to Drive Cutting-Edge Machine Learning
Machine learning and the Apache Kafka® ecosystem are a great combination for training and deploying analytic models at scale. I had previously discussed potential use cases and architectures for machine […]
Kafka Connect Deep Dive – Converters and Serialization Explained
Kafka Connect is part of Apache Kafka®, providing streaming integration between data stores and Kafka. For data engineers, it just requires JSON configuration files to use. There are connectors for […]
Apache Kafka Supports 200K Partitions Per Cluster
In Kafka, a topic can have multiple partitions to which records are distributed. Partitions are the unit of parallelism. In general, more partitions leads to higher throughput. However, there are […]
How to Work with Apache Kafka in Your Spring Boot Application
Choosing the right messaging system during your architectural planning is always a challenge, yet one of the most important considerations to nail. As a developer, I write applications daily that […]
ATM Fraud Detection with Apache Kafka and KSQL
Fraud detection is a topic applicable to many industries, including banking and financial sectors, insurance, government agencies and law enforcement and more. Fraud attempts have seen a drastic increase in […]
That’s a Wrap! Kafka Summit San Francisco 2018 Roundup
Were you there last week? For as big as that event felt, it’s hard to believe it’s only the third annual Kafka Summit San Francisco. But the view was beautiful […]
Apache Kafka on Kubernetes – Could You? Should You?
When Confluent launched the Helm Charts and early access program for Confluent Operator, we published a blog post explaining how to easily run Apache Kafka® on Kubernetes. Since then, we’ve […]
Noise Mapping with KSQL, a Raspberry Pi and a Software-Defined Radio
Our new cat, Snowy, is waking early. She is startled by the noise of jets flying over our house. Can I determine which plane is upsetting her by utilizing Apache […]
Event Driven 2.0
In the future, data will be as automated and self-service as infrastructure is today. You’ll open a console that lists the data available in your company; define the pieces you […]
KSQL Recipes Available Now in the Stream Processing Cookbook
For those of you who are hungry for more stream processing, we are pleased to share the recent release of Confluent’s Stream Processing Cookbook, which features short and tasteful KSQL […]
Troubleshooting KSQL – Part 2: What’s Happening Under the Covers?
Previously in part 1, we saw how to troubleshoot one of the most common issues that people have with KSQL—queries that don’t return data even though data is expected. Here, […]