Kafka in the Cloud: Why it’s 10x better with Confluent | Find out more
Confluent
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.
Easily Copy or Migrate Schemas Anywhere with Schema Linking
Schema Linking is a new feature that’s available in preview for both Confluent Cloud and Confluent Platform 7.0 and can be used to complement Cluster Linking, in order to keep […]
Building Real-Time Hybrid Architectures with Cluster Linking and Confluent Platform 7.0
Companies are increasingly moving to the cloud, undergoing a transition that is often a multi-year journey across incremental stages. Along this journey, many companies embrace hybrid cloud architectures, either temporarily […]
Scaling Apache Druid for Real-Time Cloud Analytics at Confluent
How does Confluent provide fine-grained operational visibility to our customers throughout all of the multi-tenant services that we run in the cloud? At Confluent Cloud, we manage a large number […]
Stream Governance – How it Works
At the recent Kafka Summit, Confluent announced the general availability of Stream Governance–the industry’s only governance suite for data in motion. Offered as a fully managed cloud solution, it delivers […]
Confluent’s Oracle CDC Connector Now Supports Oracle Database 19c
Many Oracle Database customers currently still leverage Oracle 12c or 18c in their production environments, with some even using Oracle 11g. Most of these customers have moved to 19c or […]
Introducing Single Message Transforms and New Connector Features on Confluent Cloud
Data silos across an organization are common, with valuable business insights waiting to be uncovered. This is why at Confluent we built a portfolio of fully managed connectors to enable […]
Trigger AWS Lambda Functions Directly from an Apache Kafka Topic
The distributed architecture of Apache Kafka® can cause the operational burden of managing it to quickly become a limiting factor for adoption and developer agility. For this reason, it is […]
Confluent Unlocks the Full Power of Event Streams with Stream Governance
Data governance initiatives aim to manage the availability, integrity, and security of data used across an organization. With the explosion in volume, variety, and velocity of data powering the modern […]
Announcing Elastic Data Streams Support for Confluent’s Elasticsearch Sink Connector
Today, as part of our expanded partnership with Elastic, we are announcing an update to the fully managed Elasticsearch Sink Connector in Confluent Cloud. This update allows you to take […]
Announcing the Confluent Q3 ’21 Release
The Confluent Q3 ‘21 release is here and packed full of new features that enable the world’s most innovative businesses to continue building what keeps them on top: real-time, mission-critical […]
Announcing the Azure Cosmos DB Sink Connector in Confluent Cloud
Today, Confluent is announcing the general availability (GA) of the fully managed Azure Cosmos DB Sink Connector within Confluent Cloud. Now, with just a few simple clicks, you can link […]
Designing and Architecting the Confluent CLI
It is often difficult enough to build one application that talks to a single middleware or backend layer; e.g., a whole team of frontend engineers may build a web application […]
Protecting Data Integrity in Confluent Cloud: Over 8 Trillion Messages Audited Per Day
It’s about maintaining the right data even when no one is watching. Last year, Confluent announced support for Infinite Storage, which fundamentally changes data retention in Apache Kafka® by allowing […]
From On-Prem to Cloud-Native: Multi-Tenancy in Confluent Cloud
Multi-tenancy brings cost-efficiency to infrastructure, and when done correctly, creates an economy of scale. Done incorrectly and you degrade the user experience and create maintenance nightmares for operators. This is […]