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Data Products, Data Contracts, and Change Data Capture
Change data capture is a popular method to connect database tables to data streams, but it comes with drawbacks. The next evolution of the CDC pattern, first-class data products, provide resilient pipelines that support both real-time and batch processing while isolating upstream systems...
Introducing Confluent Cloud Freight Clusters
Learn how the latest innovations in Kora enable us to introduce new Confluent Cloud Freight clusters, which can save you up to 90% at GBps+ scale. Confluent Cloud Freight clusters are now available in Early Access.
Contributing to Apache Kafka®: How to Write a KIP
Learn how to contribute to open source Apache Kafka by writing Kafka Improvement Proposals (KIPs) that solve problems and add features! Read on for real examples.
May Preview Release: Advancing KSQL and Schema Registry
We are very excited to announce the Confluent Platform May 2018 Preview release! The May Preview introduces powerful new capabilities for KSQL and the Schema Registry UI. Read on to […]
Analytics on Bare Metal: Xenon and Kafka Connect
The following post is a guest blog from Tushar Sudhakar Jee, Software Engineer, Levyx responsible for Kafka infrastructure. You may find this post also on Levyx’s blog. Abstract As part […]
Introducing Self-Service Apache Kafka for Developers
New Confluent Cloud and Ecosystem Expansion to Google Cloud Platform The vision for Confluent Cloud is simple. We want to provide an event streaming service to support all customers on […]
Visualizations on Apache Kafka Made Easy with KSQL
We’re pleased to welcome our partner Arcadia Data to the Confluent blog today. Shant Hovsepian is the CTO and co-founder of Arcadia Data, and is going to tell us about […]
Level Up Your KSQL
Now that KSQL is available for production use as a part of the Confluent Platform, it has never been easier to run the open-source streaming SQL engine for Apache Kafka®. […]
Introducing the Confluent Operator: Apache Kafka on Kubernetes Made Simple
At Confluent, our mission is to put a Streaming Platform at the heart of every digital company in the world. This means, making it easy to deploy and use Apache […]
Introducing Confluent Platform Preview Releases
Download Confluent Platform preview release Historically, Confluent delivers a new release of Confluent Platform three times per year. While this cadence meets the needs of a meaningful portion of our […]
Confluent Platform 4.1 with Production-Ready KSQL Now Available
We are pleased to announce that Confluent Platform 4.1, our enterprise streaming platform built on Apache Kafka®, is available for download today. With Confluent Platform, you get the latest in […]
We ❤ syslogs: Real-time syslog Processing with Apache Kafka and KSQL – Part 2: Event-Driven Alerting with Slack
In the previous article, we saw how syslog data can be easily streamed into Apache Kafka® and filtered in real time with KSQL. In this article, we’re going to see how […]
We ❤️ syslogs: Real-time syslog Processing with Apache Kafka and KSQL – Part 1: Filtering
Syslog is one of those ubiquitous standards on which much of modern computing runs. Built into operating systems such as Linux, it’s also commonplace in networking and IoT devices like […]
KSQL in Action: Enriching CSV Events with Data from RDBMS into AWS
Life would be simple if data lived in one place: one single solitary database to rule them all. Anything that needed to be joined to anything could be with a […]
No More Silos: How to Integrate Your Databases with Apache Kafka and CDC
One of the most frequent questions and topics that I see come up on community resources such as StackOverflow, the Confluent Platform mailing list, and the Confluent Community Slack group, […]
Event Sourcing Using Apache Kafka
Adam Warski is one of the co-founders of SoftwareMill, where he codes mainly using Scala and other interesting technologies. He is involved in open-source projects, such as sttp, MacWire, Quicklens, […]
KSQL February Release: Streaming SQL for Apache Kafka
We are pleased to announce the release of KSQL v0.5, aka the February 2018 release of KSQL. This release is focused on bug fixes and as well as performance and stability […]