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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.
Deploying Apache Kafka on AWS Elastic Block Store (EBS)
Apache Kafka is designed to be highly performant, reliable, scalable, and fault tolerant. At the same time, the performance and reliability of a Kafka cluster is highly dependent on the […]
How We Monitor and Run Kafka At Scale
This post was written by guest blogger Rajiv Kurian from SignalFx. SignalFx is a member of the Confluent partner program. Rajiv is a software engineer with over five years experience building […]
Log Compaction | Highlights in the Apache Kafka and Stream Processing Community | April 2016
The Apache Kafka community was crazy-busy last month. We released a technical preview of Kafka Streams and then voted on a release plan for Kafka 0.10.0. We accelerated the discussion […]
Introducing Kafka Streams: Stream Processing Made Simple
I’m really excited to announce a major new feature in Apache Kafka v0.10: Kafka’s Streams API. The Streams API, available as a Java library that is part of the official […]
Log Compaction | Highlights in the Kafka and Stream Processing Community | March 2016
It was another productive month in the Apache Kafka community. Many of the KIPs that were under active discussion in the last Log Compaction were implemented, reviewed, and merged into […]
Announcing Apache Kafka 0.9.0.1 and Confluent Platform 2.0.1
A few months ago, we announced the major release of Apache Kafka 0.9, which added several new features like Security, Kafka Connect, the new Java consumer and also critical bug […]
Announcing Kafka Connect: Building large-scale low-latency data pipelines
For a long time, a substantial portion of data processing that companies did ran as big batch jobs — CSV files dumped out of databases, log files collected at the […]
Log Compaction | Highlights in the Kafka and Stream Processing Community | February 2016
Welcome to the February 2016 edition of Log Compaction, a monthly digest of highlights in the Apache Kafka and stream processing community. Got a newsworthy item? Let us know.
Apache Kafka Security 101
TLS, Kerberos, SASL, and Authorizer in Apache Kafka 0.9 – Enabling New Encryption, Authorization, and Authentication Features Apache Kafka is frequently used to store critical data making it one of […]
Introducing the Kafka Consumer: Getting Started with the New Apache Kafka 0.9 Consumer Client
When Apache Kafka® was originally created, it shipped with a Scala producer and consumer client. Over time we came to realize many of the limitations of these APIs. For example, […]
290 Reasons to Upgrade to Apache Kafka 0.9.0.0
When we released Apache Kafka 0.9.0.0, we talked about all of the big new features we added: the new consumer, Kafka Connect, security features, and much more. What we didn’t […]
Log Compaction | Highlights in the Kafka and Stream Processing Community | January 2016
Happy 2016! Wishing you a wonderful, highly scalable, and very reliable year. Log Compaction is a monthly digest of highlights in the Apache Kafka and stream processing community. Got a newsworthy item? Let us […]
How to Build a Scalable ETL Pipeline with Kafka Connect
Apache Kafka is a high-throughput distributed message system that is being adopted by hundreds of companies to manage their real-time data. Companies use Kafka for many applications (real time stream […]
Confluent Platform 2.0 is GA!
We are very excited to announce the general availability of Confluent Platform 2.0. For organizations that want to build a streaming data pipeline around Apache Kafka, Confluent Platform is the […]