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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.
Scaling Apache Kafka to 10+ GB Per Second in Confluent Cloud
Apache Kafka® is the de facto standard for event streaming today. The semantics of the partitioned consumer model that Kafka pioneered have enabled scale at a level and at a […]
Announcing the MongoDB Atlas Sink and Source Connectors in Confluent Cloud
We are excited to announce the preview release of the fully managed MongoDB Atlas source and sink connectors in Confluent Cloud, our fully managed event streaming service based on Apache […]
Confluent CLI 1.0 is Now Generally Available for Cloud and Platform
Over a year ago, Confluent set out on a mission to improve user experience by empowering developers, operators, and architects with intuitive command line interfaces (CLIs) for managing their Confluent […]
Elastically Scaling Confluent Platform on Kubernetes
This month, we kicked off Project Metamorphosis by introducing several Confluent features that make Apache Kafka® clusters more elastic—the first of eight foundational traits characterizing cloud-native data systems that map […]
Best Practices to Secure Your Apache Kafka Deployment
For many organizations, Apache Kafka® is the backbone and source of truth for data systems across the enterprise. Protecting your event streaming platform is critical for data security and often […]
Getting Started with Protobuf in Confluent Cloud
Confluent Cloud supports Schema Registry as a fully managed service that allows you to easily manage schemas used across topics, with Apache Kafka® as a central nervous system that connects […]
Monitoring Confluent Platform with Datadog
Earning customer love is a core value at Confluent, and like all relationships, listening makes the love flourish. When it comes to monitoring, we’ve heard you, and we are pleased […]
Project Metamorphosis Month 1: Elastic Apache Kafka Clusters in Confluent Cloud
A few weeks ago when we talked about our new fundraising, we also announced we’d be kicking off Project Metamorphosis. What is Project Metamorphosis? Let me try to explain. I […]
Measuring Code Coverage of Golang Binaries with Bincover
Measuring coverage of Go code is an easy task with the built-in go test tool, but for tests that run a binary, like end-to-end tests, there’s no obvious way to […]
Confluent Platform Now Supports Protobuf, JSON Schema, and Custom Formats
When Confluent Schema Registry was first introduced, Apache Avro™ was initially chosen as the default format. While Avro has worked well for many users, over the years, we’ve received many […]
Introducing Confluent Platform 5.5
We are pleased to announce the release of Confluent Platform 5.5. With this release, Confluent makes event streaming more broadly accessible to developers of all backgrounds, enhancing three categories of […]
How the New Confluent Hub Makes Finding Connectors Easier Than Ever
Confluent Hub launched in 2018 as a place to discover and share Apache Kafka® and Confluent Platform plugins. Users have found the site a much better place to discover useful […]
Confluent Cloud KSQL is Now Available
Today, we are excited to announce that after a highly productive period of being in private preview, Confluent Cloud KSQL is now production ready and available to all Confluent Cloud […]
Stable, Secure Apache Kafka as a Service – A Cloud Provider’s Tale
Running fully managed Apache Kafka® as a service brings many responsibilities that leading cloud providers hide well. There is a reason why cloud services are so popular right now— companies realize […]