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Consuming messages in parallel is what Apache Kafka® is all about, so you may well wonder, why would we want anything else? It turns out that, in practice, there are […]

Building event streaming applications has never been simpler with ksqlDB. But what is it? ksqlDB is an event streaming database for building stream processing applications. Unlike Kafka Streams, ksqlDB programs […]

This blog post shows how transactional machine learning (TML) integrates data streams with automated machine learning (AutoML), using Apache Kafka® as the data backbone, to create a frictionless machine learning […]

This article covers one crucial piece of every distributed system: visibility. At AppsFlyer, we call ourselves metrics obsessed and truly believe that you cannot know what you cannot see. We […]

If you’re getting started with Apache Kafka® and event streaming applications, you’ll be pleased to see the variety of languages available to start interacting with the event streaming platform. It […]

Data is the currency of competitive advantage in today’s digital age. All organizations struggle with their data due to the sheer variety of data types and ways that it can […]

Organizations define standards and policies around the usage of data to ensure the following: Data quality: Data streams follow the defined data standards as represented in schemas Data evolvability: Schemas […]

This is the eighth and final month of Project Metamorphosis: an initiative that brings the best characteristics of modern cloud-native data systems to the Apache Kafka® ecosystem, served from Confluent […]

Due to the distributed architecture of Apache Kafka®, the operational burden of managing it can quickly become a limiting factor on adoption and developer agility. For this reason, it is […]

As part of this year’s Kafka Summit, the Confluent Community team hosted a community hackathon named Kafkathon 2020. The event provided an opportunity for participants to learn, build, and showcase […]

I’m excited to announce a new strategic partnership with IBM. As part of this partnership, IBM will be reselling Confluent Platform, enabling its customers to leverage their existing IBM relationships […]

As a clothing retailer with more than 1.5 million customers worldwide, Boden is always looking to capitalise on business moments to drive sales. For example, when the Duchess of Cambridge […]

Building data pipelines isn’t always straightforward. The gap between the shiny “hello world” examples of demos and the gritty reality of messy data and imperfect formats is sometimes all too […]

Software engineering memes are in vogue, and nothing is more fashionable than joking about how complicated distributed systems can be. Despite the ribbing, many people adopt them. Why? Distributed systems […]