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Data Products, Data Contracts, and Change Data Capture
Change data capture is a popular method to connect database tables to data streams, but it comes with drawbacks. The next evolution of the CDC pattern, first-class data products, provide resilient pipelines that support both real-time and batch processing while isolating upstream systems...
Introducing Confluent Cloud Freight Clusters
Learn how the latest innovations in Kora enable us to introduce new Confluent Cloud Freight clusters, which can save you up to 90% at GBps+ scale. Confluent Cloud Freight clusters are now available in Early Access.
Contributing to Apache Kafka®: How to Write a KIP
Learn how to contribute to open source Apache Kafka by writing Kafka Improvement Proposals (KIPs) that solve problems and add features! Read on for real examples.
Getting Started with Apache Kafka and Python
Welcome Pythonistas to the streaming data world centered around Apache Kafka®! If you’re using Python and ready to get hands-on with Kafka, then you’re in the right place. This blog […]
Introducing 18 New, Fully Managed Connectors in Confluent Cloud
In our February 2020 blog post Celebrating Over 100 Supported Apache Kafka® Connectors, we announced support for more than 100 connectors on Confluent Platform. Since then, we have been focused […]
How to Visualise Confluent Cloud Audit Log Data
At Confluent, we’re serious about security, and we’re focused on simplifying security visibility across our cloud and on-premises solution. This blog demonstrates how to monitor Confluent Cloud authorization events using […]
Best Tutorials for Getting Started with Apache Kafka
Each one of the more than 50 tutorials for Apache Kafka® on Confluent Developer answers a question that you might ask a knowledgeable friend or colleague about Kafka and its […]
A Guide to Stream Processing and ksqlDB Fundamentals
Event streaming applications are a powerful way to react to events as they happen and to take advantage of data while it is fresh. However, they can be a challenge […]
Migrating Data from On-Premises Data Platforms to Databricks Delta Lake in AWS
Today, we are excited to announce the preview release of Confluent’s Databricks Delta Lake Sink Connector for Confluent Cloud. This connector allows you to reliably and cost effectively implement continuous […]
How to Efficiently Subscribe to a SQL Query for Changes
Imagine that you have real-time data about what’s happening in the stock market, and you want to support a large number of customized dashboards displaying the data as it comes […]
Announcing ksqlDB 0.22.0
We’re pleased to announce ksqlDB 0.22.0! This release includes source streams and source tables as well as improved pull query (for key-range predicates) and push query performance. All of these […]
4 Reasons to Visit Confluent at AWS re:Invent 2021
The Confluent team is thrilled to meet you in person at AWS re:Invent 2021 happening on November 29 through December 3. As a Diamond sponsor, we are showing up in […]
Succeeding at 100 Days Of Code for Apache Kafka
Some call it a challenge. Others call it a community. Whatever you call it, 100 Days Of Code is a bunch of fun and a great learning experience that helps […]
Easily Copy or Migrate Schemas Anywhere with Schema Linking
Schema Linking is a new feature that’s available in preview for both Confluent Cloud and Confluent Platform 7.0 and can be used to complement Cluster Linking, in order to keep […]
Building Real-Time Hybrid Architectures with Cluster Linking and Confluent Platform 7.0
Companies are increasingly moving to the cloud, undergoing a transition that is often a multi-year journey across incremental stages. Along this journey, many companies embrace hybrid cloud architectures, either temporarily […]
Scaling Apache Druid for Real-Time Cloud Analytics at Confluent
How does Confluent provide fine-grained operational visibility to our customers throughout all of the multi-tenant services that we run in the cloud? At Confluent Cloud, we manage a large number […]
How Do You Change a Never-Ending Query?
There’s a philosophical puzzle of the Ship of Theseus where throughout a long voyage planks in a ship are individually replaced as they begin to rot. At the end, there […]