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Aiven, Confluent, Redpanda, StreamNative and Ververica Form Streamhouse Working Group
New industry initiative establishes an open category for data architectures that power real-time applications and AI agents
KCP: How to Migrate to Confluent Cloud in Days, Not Weeks
Learn how to migrate to Confluent Cloud in hours using Confluent’s open source Kafka Copy Paste tool. Get an in-depth introduction to the KCP tool and a walk-through of the four steps of migrating from MSK to Confluent Cloud using the tool.
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.
We ❤️ syslogs: Real-time syslog Processing with Apache Kafka and KSQL – Part 1: Filtering
Syslog is one of those ubiquitous standards on which much of modern computing runs. Built into operating systems such as Linux, it’s also commonplace in networking and IoT devices like […]
KSQL in Action: Enriching CSV Events with Data from RDBMS into AWS
Life would be simple if data lived in one place: one single solitary database to rule them all. Anything that needed to be joined to anything could be with a […]
No More Silos: How to Integrate Your Databases with Apache Kafka and CDC
One of the most frequent questions and topics that I see come up on community resources such as StackOverflow, the Confluent Platform mailing list, and the Confluent Community Slack group, […]
Event Sourcing Using Apache Kafka
Adam Warski is one of the co-founders of SoftwareMill, where he codes mainly using Scala and other interesting technologies. He is involved in open-source projects, such as sttp, MacWire, Quicklens, […]
KSQL February Release: Streaming SQL for Apache Kafka
We are pleased to announce the release of KSQL v0.5, aka the February 2018 release of KSQL. This release is focused on bug fixes and as well as performance and stability […]
Secure Stream Processing with Apache Kafka, Confluent Platform and KSQL
In this blog post, we first look at stream processing examples using KSQL that show how companies are using Apache Kafka® to grow their business and to analyze data in […]
KSQL in Action: Real-Time Streaming ETL from Oracle Transactional Data
In this post I’m going to show what streaming ETL looks like in practice. We’re replacing batch extracts with event streams, and batch transformation with in-flight transformation. But first, a […]
Confluent and Apache Kafka in 2017
2017 was an amazing year for Apache Kafka® as an open source project and for Confluent as a company. I wanted to take moment to thank all the contributors and […]
KSQL January release: Streaming SQL for Apache Kafka
We are pleased to announce the release of KSQL 0.4, aka the January 2018 release of KSQL. As usual, this release is a mix of new features as well as […]
Should You Put Several Event Types in the Same Kafka Topic?
If you adopt a streaming platform such as Apache Kafka, one of the most important questions to answer is: what topics are you going to use? In particular, if you […]
Apache Mesos, Apache Kafka and Kafka Streams for Highly Scalable Microservices
Apache Kafka and Apache Mesos are very well-known and successful Apache projects. A lot has happened in these projects since Confluent’s last blog post on the topic in July 2015. […]
Kafka Summit London 2018 Agenda Announced
Good news! The agenda and speakers for the first-ever Kafka Summit in London have been announced. If you’ve been to one of the Summits in New York or San Francisco, […]
KSQL December Release: Streaming SQL for Apache Kafka
We are very excited to announce the December release of KSQL, the streaming SQL engine for Apache Kafka®! As we announced in the November release blog, we are releasing KSQL […]
The Blog Post on Monitoring an Apache Kafka Deployment to End Most Blog Posts
Confluent Platform is the central nervous system for a business, uniting your organization around a Kafka-based single source of truth. Apache Kafka® has been in production at thousands of companies […]