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Confluent has been offering our customers the opportunity to seamlessly connect their Apache Kafka® topics to Google BigQuery for several years. This helps accelerate data warehouse initiatives by connecting more […]

We’re pleased to share a new multi-year partnership between Confluent and Microsoft to accelerate enterprises’ journey to cloud data streaming on Azure. Today’s announcement builds upon the partnership agreement we […]

Our everyday digital experiences are in the midst of a revolution. Customers increasingly expect their online experiences to be interactive, immersive, and real time by default. The need to satisfy […]

Whether you were born in the cloud, are just dipping your toes in the water with cloud, or are somewhere in between, chances are your organization is on a cloud […]

From fraud detection and predictive analytics, to real-time customer experiences and cyber security, stream processing has countless benefits for use cases big and small. By unlocking the power of continuous […]

When Sanjana Kaundinya chose Confluent for her first job out of college, she was eager to learn as much as possible—and in the two years since, that’s exactly what she’s […]

Logging is an important component of managing service availability, security, and customer experience. It allows Site Reliability Engineers (SREs), developers, security teams, and infrastructure teams to gain insights to how […]

The choice of how to get your data in and out of your Apache Kafka® clusters is one that merits thoughtful consideration. On one hand, you can choose to develop […]

Why replace ZooKeeper with an internal log for Apache Kafka® metadata management? This post explores the rationale behind the replacement, examines why a quorum-based consensus protocol like Raft was utilized […]

Gemma Singleton joined Confluent three years ago as an associate level solutions architect. While the job at Confluent appeared less “senior” than the position she was leaving, moving into a […]

We are excited to announce ksqlDB 0.24! It comes with a slew of improvements and new features. Access to Apache Kafka® record headers will enable a whole host of new […]

In the last few years, we’ve seen hugely impactful cyberattacks that have grabbed the attention of the media, the security community, and the IT industry. The WannaCry attack, for instance, […]

Decentralized architectures continue to flourish as engineering teams look to unlock the potential of their people and systems. From Git, to microservices, to cryptocurrencies, these designs look to decentralization as […]

Imagine your team wants to design a data streaming architecture and you’re in charge of creating the prototype. Within a few minutes, you provision a fully managed Apache Kafka® cluster […]