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Queues for Apache Kafka® Is Here: Your Guide to Getting Started in Confluent
Confluent announces the General Availability of Queues for Kafka on Confluent Cloud and Confluent Platform with Apache Kafka 4.2. This production-ready feature brings native queue semantics to Kafka through KIP-932, enabling organizations to consolidate streaming and queuing infrastructure while...
AI Tools for Builders — Confluent's MCP Server & Agent Skills
Confluent's AI developer tools are now GA: an open-source local MCP server, a managed MCP server, and Agent Skills. Together they give AI coding assistants direct access to your streaming platform — the tools to act on it and the domain knowledge to build correctly.
New in Confluent Intelligence: Real-Time Context Engine Upgrade, New Model Support, ML Functions, and More
Explore new Confluent Intelligence features: enhanced querying with Real-Time Context Engine, PII detection, sentiment analysis, and support for TimesFM, Anthropic, and Fireworks AI models.
Building a Telegram Bot Powered by Apache Kafka and ksqlDB
Imagine you’ve got a stream of data; it’s not “big data,” but it’s certainly a lot. Within the data, you’ve got some bits you’re interested in, and of those bits, […]
From Eager to Smarter in Apache Kafka Consumer Rebalances
Everyone wants their infrastructure to be highly available, and ksqlDB is no different. But crucial properties like high availability don’t come without a thoughtful, rigorous design. We thought hard about […]
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 […]
Highly Available, Fault-Tolerant Pull Queries in ksqlDB
One of the most critical aspects of any scale-out database is its availability to serve queries during partial failures. Business-critical applications require some measure of resilience to be able to […]
Walmart’s Real-Time Inventory System Powered by Apache Kafka
Consumer shopping patterns have changed drastically in the last few years. Shopping in a physical store is no longer the only way. Retail shopping experiences have evolved to include multiple […]
ksqlDB Execution Plans: Move Fast But Don’t Break Things
The ksqlDB Engineering Team has been hard at work preparing ksqlDB for production availability in Confluent Cloud. This is the first in a series of posts that deep dives into […]
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 […]
Kafka Summit Austin 2020 is Going Virtual
As you know, we were looking forward to welcoming the Apache Kafka® community to Austin, TX, for Kafka Summit in August. Meeting together in person is always the best way […]
Broadcom Modernizes Machine Learning and Anomaly Detection with ksqlDB
Mainframes are still ubiquitous, used for almost every financial transaction around the world—credit card transactions, billing, payroll, etc. You might think that working on mainframe software would be dull, requiring […]
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 […]
Confluent Raises $250M and Kicks Off Project Metamorphosis
It’s an exciting day for Confluent, in the middle of a very unusual and difficult time in the larger world. Nonetheless, I thought it was important we share this news […]
Webify Event Streams Using the Kafka Connect HTTP Sink Connector
The goal of this post is to illustrate PUSH to web from Apache Kafka® with a hands-on example. Our business users are always wanting their data faster so they can […]