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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 Confluent Cloud for Apache Kafka as a Native Service on Google Cloud Platform
I’m excited to announce that we’re partnering with Google Cloud to make Confluent Cloud, our fully managed offering of Apache Kafka®, available as a native offering on Google Cloud Platform […]
Introducing Confluent Platform 5.2
Includes free forever Confluent Platform on a single Apache Kafka® broker, improved Control Center functionality at scale and hybrid cloud streaming We are very excited to announce the general availability […]
All About the Kafka Connect Neo4j Sink Plugin
Only a little more than one month after the first release, we are happy to announce another milestone for our Kafka integration. Today, you can grab the Kafka Connect Neo4j […]
Using Apache Kafka Command Line Tools with Confluent Cloud
If you have been using Apache Kafka® for a while, it is likely that you have developed a degree of confidence in the command line tools that come with it. […]
A Developer’s Guide to the Confluent Community License
Last week we announced that we changed the license of some of the components of Confluent Platform from Apache 2.0 to the Confluent Community License. We are really grateful to […]
12 Days of Tech Tips
For the first 12 days of December, Confluent shared a daily tech tip related to managing Apache Kafka® in the cloud. These tips make it easier for you to get […]
License Changes for Confluent Platform
We’re changing the license for some of the components of Confluent Platform from Apache 2.0 to the Confluent Community License. This new license allows you to freely download, modify, and […]
3 Ways to Prepare for Disaster Recovery in Multi-Datacenter Apache Kafka Deployments
Imagine: Disaster strikes—catastrophic hardware failure, software failure, power outage, denial of service attack or some other event causes one datacenter with an Apache Kafka® cluster to completely fail. Yet Kafka […]
Streaming in the Clouds: Where to Start
Only a few years ago, when someone said they had a “cloud-first strategy,” you knew exactly who their new preferred vendor was. These days, however, the story is a lot […]
Apache Kafka on Kubernetes – Could You? Should You?
When Confluent launched the Helm Charts and early access program for Confluent Operator, we published a blog post explaining how to easily run Apache Kafka® on Kubernetes. Since then, we’ve […]
How to Build a UDF and/or UDAF in ksqlDB 5.0
ksqlDB is the event streaming database purpose-built for stream processing applications that enables real-time data processing against Apache Kafka®. ksqlDB makes it easy to read, write and process streaming data […]
Getting Started with Apache Kafka and Kubernetes
Enabling everyone to run Apache Kafka® on Kubernetes is an important part of our mission to put a streaming platform at the heart of every company. This is why we look […]
Decoupling Systems with Apache Kafka, Schema Registry and Avro
As your Apache Kafka® deployment starts to grow, the benefits of using a schema registry quickly become compelling. Confluent Schema Registry, which is included in the Confluent Platform, enables you […]
Introducing Confluent Platform 5.0
We are excited to announce the release of Confluent Platform 5.0, the enterprise streaming platform built on Apache Kafka®. At Confluent, our vision is to place a streaming platform at […]