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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.
Designing Events and Event Streams: Introduction and Best Practices
Properly designing your events and event streams is essential for any event-driven architecture. Precisely how you design and implement them will significantly affect not only what you can do today
New for Confluent Cloud: Stream Designer, Stream Governance Advanced, and More
Our latest set of Confluent Cloud product launches is live and packed full of new features to help businesses innovate faster and more confidently with our real-time data streaming platform. […]
Introducing Stream Designer: The Visual Builder for Streaming Data Pipelines
Data pipelines are critical to the modern, data-driven business, connecting a network of data systems and applications to power both operational and analytical use cases. With the need to promptly […]
What’s New in Apache Kafka 3.3
We are proud to announce the release of Apache Kafka® 3.3 on behalf of the Apache Kafka community. The 3.3 release contains many new features and improvements. This blog post […]
Getting Started with the Confluent Terraform Provider
As part of our recent Q3 Launch for Confluent Cloud we announced the general availability of the Confluent Terraform Provider. HashiCorp Terraform is an Infrastructure as Code tool that lets […]
Event-Driven Microservices with Python and Apache Kafka
Our journey with microservices, so far… Back in the days before microservices, we used to build applications that were often hosted in application servers such as WebLogic or WebSphere (apologies […]
Keeping Multiple Databases in Sync Using Kafka Connect and CDC
Microservices architectures have now been widely adopted among developers, and with a great degree of success. However, drawbacks do exist. Data silos can arise where information processed by one microservice […]
Real-Time Gaming Infrastructure for Millions of Users with Apache Kafka, ksqlDB, and WebSockets
The global video game market is bigger than the music and film industry combined. It includes Triple-A, casual/mid-core, mobile, and multiplayer online games. Various business models exist, such as hardware […]
Leave Apache Kafka Reliability Worries Behind with Confluent Cloud’s 10x Resiliency
As businesses increasingly rely on Apache Kafka® for mission-critical applications, resiliency becomes non-negotiable. Any unplanned downtime and breaches can result in lost revenue, reputation damage, fines or audits, reduced CSAT, […]
What’s New in Health+: 7 New Dashboards, 70% Monitoring Infra Savings
Not all telemetry data is created equal, but Health+ can help you prioritize the most important bits. If you’re reading this blog post, it’s quite likely that you are in […]
Declarative Connectors with Confluent for Kubernetes
Apache Kafka® has a rich ecosystem of hundreds of connectors to get data in and out of Kafka. You probably need multiple connectors in your architecture to support data in […]
Getting Started with the KRaft Protocol
What is KRaft, and how does it work? Apache Kafka® Raft (KRaft) is the consensus protocol that was introduced to remove Apache Kafka’s dependency on ZooKeeper™ for metadata management. This […]
Getting Started with Confluent Cloud Networking
Networking is a core technology skill set that affects practitioners at all levels and parts of a business, from developers and users who often benefit from learning foundational networking concepts […]
An Introduction to Apache Kafka Security: Securing Real-Time Data Streams
The largest companies in the world use Apache Kafka® for their real-time streaming data pipelines and applications. Kafka is the basis for the real-time fraud text alerts from your bank […]