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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...
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: Real-Time Context Engine Upgrade, New Model Support, ML Functions, and More
Explore new Confluent Intelligence features: enhanced querying with Real-Time Context Engine, PII detection, sentiment analysis, and support for TimesFM, Anthropic, and Fireworks AI models.
Building Kafka Storage That’s 10x More Scalable and Performant
As part of our series walking through how we built Confluent Cloud into a 10x better Apache Kafka® service, we explored how Confluent Cloud uses Intelligent Storage to achieve 10x […]
How to Visualize Your Apache Kafka Data the Easy Way with Stream Lineage
Understanding how data flows and is transformed across the different layers of an organization’s application and data stack is one of the most challenging governance problems companies are facing today. […]
How to Keep Bad Data Out of Apache Kafka with Stream Quality
Dealing with garbage in, garbage out (GIGO) has tormented data teams for generations. Analytics and decision making have suffered from this “garbage”. The new era of machine learning and being […]
Managing Hybrid Cloud Data with Cloud-Native Kubernetes APIs
Confluent for Kubernetes (CFK) has added declarative API support for Cluster Linking, allowing you to connect public and private cloud environments with a declarative API. Confluent for Kubernetes provides a […]
Applying Data Pipeline Principles in Practice: Exploring the Kafka Summit Keynote Demo
Real-time data streaming necessitates a new way to think about modern data system design. In the keynote at Kafka Summit London 2022, Confluent CEO Jay Kreps described five principles of […]
How Confluent Treats Incidents in the Cloud
An inevitable consequence of rapid business growth is that there will be incidents: even the best, most well-planned systems will begin to fail when you expand them very quickly. The […]
How to Elastically Scale Apache Kafka Clusters on Confluent Cloud
Elasticity is one of the table stakes for a mature cloud service. Elasticity enables the addition of capacity in a cloud service as needed to meet spikes in demand, and […]
Announcing ksqlDB 0.26
We are excited to bring forward yet another ksqlDB release with ksqlDB 0.26. This time we have focused on improving your experience with aggregate functions, JOINs, and schemas. We have […]
Making Confluent Cloud 10x More Elastic Than Apache Kafka
At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020, Instacart experienced its highest customer demand in history. Its customer-facing applications, backend systems, and business processes were all put to […]
Stream Processing vs. Batch Processing: What to Know
With more data being produced in real time by many systems and devices than ever before, it is critical to be able to process it in real time and get […]
What’s New in Apache Kafka 3.2.0
I’m proud to announce the release of Apache Kafka 3.2.0 on behalf of the Apache Kafka® community. The 3.2.0 release contains many new features and improvements. This blog will highlight […]
Confluent at a Fully Disconnected Edge
Internet connectivity is something we sometimes take for granted. For many, most places we visit, work, or reside have some form of connectivity whether it be cellular, Wi-Fi, fiber, etc. […]
How Walmart Uses Apache Kafka for Real-Time Replenishment at Scale
Walmart’s global presence, with its vast number of retail stores plus its robust and rapidly growing e-commerce business, make it one of the most challenging retail companies on the planet […]
From the Cellar to the Cloud – How Aedifion is Driving Next-Generation Building Automation with Confluent
It is no exaggeration that a lot is going wrong in commercial buildings today. The building and construction sector consumes 36% of global final energy and accounts for almost 40% […]