Technology
Aiven, Confluent, Redpanda, StreamNative and Ververica Form Streamhouse Working Group
New industry initiative establishes an open category for data architectures that power real-time applications and AI agents
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.
Announcing Pull Queries in Preview in Confluent Cloud ksqlDB
“Persistent” queries have historically formed the basis of ksqlDB applications, which continuously transform, enrich, aggregate, materialize, and join your Apache Kafka® data using a familiar SQL interface. ksqlDB continuously executes […]
Building Streaming Data Architectures with Qlik Replicate and Apache Kafka
A fundamental challenge with today’s “data explosion” is finding the best answer to the question, “So where do I put my data?” while avoiding the longer-term problem of data warehouses, […]
Preparing Your Clients and Tools for KIP-500: ZooKeeper Removal from Apache Kafka
As described in the blog post Apache Kafka® Needs No Keeper: Removing the Apache ZooKeeper Dependency, when KIP-500 lands next year, Apache Kafka will replace its usage of Apache ZooKeeper […]
Intrusion Detection with ksqlDB
Apache Kafka® is a distributed real-time processing platform that allows for the ingestion of huge volumes of data. ksqlDB is part of the Kafka ecosystem and offers a SQL-like language […]
Bounding ksqlDB Memory Usage
It’s important to be able to limit memory consumption of a running service. Use too much, and your application will crash and need to restart. If this happens too often, […]
Lessons Learned from Evolving a Risk Management Platform to Event Streaming
Every organization that exposes its services online is subject to the interest of malicious actors. The ongoing struggle with botnets, crawlers, script kiddies, and bounty hunters is challenging and requires […]
Top 5 Things Every Apache Kafka Developer Should Know
Apache Kafka® is an event streaming platform used by more than 30% of the Fortune 500 today. There are numerous features of Kafka that make it the de-facto standard for […]
Cloud-Like Flexibility and Infinite Storage with Confluent Tiered Storage and FlashBlade from Pure Storage
With the release of Confluent Platform 6.0, we officially made Tiered Storage generally available. At launch, we supported two major cloud-specific object stores: Amazon S3 and Google Cloud Storage. Today, […]
How Real-Time Materialized Views Work with ksqlDB, Animated
All around the world, companies are asking the same question: What is happening right now? We are inundated with pieces of data that have a fragment of the answer. But […]
Getting Started with Kafka Connect for New Relic
It’s 3:00 am and PagerDuty keeps firing you alerts about your application being down. You need to figure out what the issue is, if it’s impacting users, and resolve it […]
Project Metamorphosis Month 6: Secure Apache Kafka in Confluent Cloud
The cloud opens up exciting new opportunities for information gathering, analysis, and sharing that can make every organization’s products and services better. Thanks to the cloud and its decentralized nature, […]
Restoring Balance to the Cluster: Self-Balancing Clusters in Confluent Platform 6.0
Apache Kafka® scales well. A Kafka cluster can grow to tens or hundreds of brokers and easily sustain tens of GB per second of read and write traffic. But scaling […]
Introducing Cluster Linking in Confluent Platform 6.0
With the release of Confluent Platform 6.0 comes a preview of Confluent Cluster Linking available to self-managed customers and in Confluent Cloud for our early access partners. Cluster Linking is […]
ksqlDB Meets Java: An IoT-Inspired Demo of the Java Client for ksqlDB
Stream processing applications, including streaming ETL pipelines, materialized caches, and event-driven microservices, are made easy with ksqlDB. Until recently, your options for interacting with ksqlDB were limited to its command-line […]