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Apache Kafka
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.
Multi-Threaded Message Consumption with the Apache Kafka Consumer
Multithreading is “the ability of a central processing unit (CPU) (or a single core in a multi-core processor) to provide multiple threads of execution concurrently, supported by the operating system.” […]
What’s New in Apache Kafka 2.6
On behalf of the Apache Kafka® community, it is my pleasure to announce the release of Apache Kafka 2.6.0. This another exciting release with many new features and improvements. We’ll […]
Analysing Changes with Debezium and Kafka Streams
Change Data Capture (CDC) is an excellent way to introduce streaming analytics into your existing database, and using Debezium enables you to send your change data through Apache Kafka®. Although […]
Improved Robustness and Usability of Exactly-Once Semantics in Apache Kafka
This blog post talks about the recent improvements on exactly-once semantics (EOS) to make it simpler to use and more resilient. EOS was first released in Apache Kafka® 0.11 and […]
Data Privacy, Security, and Compliance for Apache Kafka
Why data privacy for Apache Kafka®? As companies seek to leverage all forms of data for competitive advantage, there is a growing regulatory and reputational risk that calls for the […]
Spring for Apache Kafka – Beyond the Basics: Can Your Kafka Consumers Handle a Poison Pill?
You know the fundamentals of Apache Kafka®. You are a Spring Boot developer working with Apache Kafka or Confluent Cloud. You have chosen Spring for Apache Kafka for your integration. […]
The Cost of Apache Kafka: An Engineer's Guide to DIY Kafka Pricing
When I have a small software project that I want to share with the world, I don’t write my own version control system with a web UI. I don’t even […]
My Python/Java/Spring/Go/Whatever Client Won’t Connect to My Apache Kafka Cluster in Docker/AWS/My Brother’s Laptop. Please Help!
When a client wants to send or receive a message from Apache Kafka®, there are two types of connection that must succeed: The initial connection to a broker (the […]
Learning All About Wi-Fi Data with Apache Kafka and Friends
Recently, I’ve been looking at what’s possible with streams of Wi-Fi packet capture (pcap) data. I was prompted after initially setting up my Raspberry Pi to capture pcap data and […]
Apache Kafka Needs No Keeper: Removing the Apache ZooKeeper Dependency
Currently, Apache Kafka® uses Apache ZooKeeper™ to store its metadata. Data such as the location of partitions and the configuration of topics are stored outside of Kafka itself, in a […]
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 […]
What’s New in Apache Kafka 2.5
On behalf of the Apache Kafka® community, it is my pleasure to announce the release of Apache Kafka 2.5.0. The community has created another exciting release. We are making progress […]
How to Make Your Open Source Apache Kafka Connector Available on Confluent Hub
Do you have data you need to get into or out of Apache Kafka®? Kafka connectors are perfect for this. There are many connectors out there, usually for well-known and […]
Kafka Connect Elasticsearch Connector in Action
The Elasticsearch sink connector helps you integrate Apache Kafka® and Elasticsearch with minimum effort. You can take data you’ve stored in Kafka and stream it into Elasticsearch to then be […]