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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.
Log Compaction – Highlights in the Apache Kafka® and Stream Processing Community – June 2017
We are very excited for the GA for Kafka release 0.11.0.0 which is just days away. This release is bringing many new features as described in the previous Log Compaction […]
Introduction to Apache Kafka® for Python Programmers
In this blog post, we’re going to get back to basics and walk through how to get started using Apache Kafka with your Python applications. We will assume some basic […]
The Future of ETL Isn’t What It Used To Be
In his book Design Patterns Explained, Alan Shalloway compares his car to an umbrella. After all, he uses both to stay dry in the rain. The umbrella has an advantage […]
Build Services on a Backbone of Events
For many, microservices are built on a protocol of requests and responses. REST etc. This approach is very natural. It is after all the way we write programs: we make […]
Log Compaction – Highlights in the Apache Kafka® and Stream Processing Community – May 2017
We are very excited to share a wealth of streaming news from the past month! If you are looking for an ideal streaming data service that delivers the resilient, scalable […]
Getting Started with the Kafka Streams API using Confluent Docker Images
Introduction What’s great about the Kafka Streams API is not just how fast your application can process data with it, but also how fast you can get up and running […]
Kafka Summit New York City: The Rise of the Event Streaming Platform
Kafka Summit New York City was the largest gathering of the Apache Kafka community outside Silicon Valley in history. Over 500 “Kafkateers” from 400+ companies and 20 countries converged in […]
Optimizing Your Apache Kafka® Deployment
Apache Kafka® is the best enterprise streaming platform that runs straight off the shelf. Just point your client applications at your Kafka cluster and Kafka takes care of the rest: […]
Announcing Confluent Cloud: Apache Kafka® as a Service
Today, I’m really excited to announce Confluent CloudTM, Apache Kafka® as a Service: the simplest, fastest, most robust and cost effective way to run Apache Kafka in the public cloud. […]
It’s Time for Kafka Summit NYC!
The team at Confluent, along with the Apache KafkaTM community, are excited the day is finally here – it’s time for Kafka Summit NYC! We’ll be at the Midtown Hilton […]
Kafka Summit NYC is Almost Here – Don’t Miss the Streams Track!
Ever wondered what it’s like to run Kafka in production? What about building and deploying microservices that process streams of data in real-time, at large scale? Or, maybe just the […]
The 2017 Apache Kafka Survey: Streaming Data on the Rise
In Q1, Confluent conducted a survey of the Apache Kafka® community and those using streaming platforms to learn about their application of streaming data. This is our second execution of […]
Watermarks, Tables, Event Time, and the Dataflow Model
The Google Dataflow team has done a fantastic job in evangelizing their model of handling time for stream processing. Their key observation is that in most cases you can’t globally […]
Kafka Summit NYC Systems Track: What to Expect
In our previous post on the Streaming Pipelines track, we highlighted some of the sessions not to be missed at Kafka Summit NYC. As a follow on to that, let’s […]