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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.
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 […]
Introducing Confluent Platform 6.0
Each month, we’ve announced a set of Confluent features organized around what we think are the key foundational traits of cloud-native data systems as part of Project Metamorphosis. Data systems […]
ksqlDB 0.12.0 Introduces Real-Time Query Upgrades and Automatic Query Restarts
The ksqlDB team is pleased to announce ksqlDB 0.12.0. This release continues to improve upon the usability of ksqlDB and aims to reduce administration time. Highlights include query upgrades, which […]
How Real-Time Stream Processing Works with ksqlDB, Animated
ksqlDB, the event streaming database, is becoming one of the most popular ways to work with Apache Kafka®. Every day, we answer many questions about the project, but here’s a […]
Building a Machine Learning Logging Pipeline with Kafka Streams at Twitter
Twitter, one of the most popular social media platforms today, is well known for its ever-changing environment—user behaviors evolve quickly; trends are dynamic and versatile; and special and emergent events […]
DevOps for Apache Kafka with Kubernetes and GitOps
Operating critical Apache Kafka® event streaming applications in production requires sound automation and engineering practices. Streaming applications are often at the center of your transaction processing and data systems, requiring […]
Infrastructure Modernization with Google Anthos and Apache Kafka
The promise of cloud computing is simplicity, speed, and cost savings. But what about workloads that can’t move to the cloud? Are they stuck using expensive legacy tooling and practices? […]
Using the Fully Managed MongoDB Atlas Connector in a Secure Environment
Since the MongoDB Atlas source and sink became available in Confluent Cloud, we’ve received many questions around how to set up these connectors in a secure environment. By default, MongoDB […]
Streaming Data from Apache Kafka into Azure Data Explorer with Kafka Connect
Near-real-time insights have become a de facto requirement for Azure use cases involving scalable log analytics, time series analytics, and IoT/telemetry analytics. Azure Data Explorer (also called Kusto) is the […]
Confluent Is Now Certified Ready on AWS Outposts
Are you looking for a way to run AWS services on premises in your own datacenter? I am excited to share today that we have completed validation of support for […]
Implementing Message Prioritization in Apache Kafka
Users of messaging technologies such as JMS and AMQP often use message prioritization so that messages can be processed in a different order based on their importance. It doesn’t take […]