Technology

Serverless stream processing with Apache Kafka® is a powerful yet often underutilized field. Microsoft’s Azure Functions, in combination with ksqlDB and Confluent’s sink connector, provide a powerful and easy-to-use set […]

Back in 2020, so many folks picked up pandemic hobbies—things they could throw themselves into at full force while they were restricted by lockdowns. I chose houseplants. Prior to the […]

The worlds of data integration and data pipelines are changing in ways that are highly reminiscent of the profound changes I witnessed in application and service development over the last twenty years.

Millions of developers code on GitHub, and if you’re one of those developers using it to create Apache Kafka® applications—for which there are 70,000+ Kafka-related repositories—it is natural to integrate […]

We are excited to announce the ksqlDB 0.27.1 release! This iteration brings forth new functionality for dynamic data access against multi-schema topics, a host of improvements relating to working with […]

The Confluent Q3 ‘22 Launch, our latest set of Confluent Cloud product launches, is live and packed full of new features to help your business innovate quickly with real-time data […]

We are pleased to announce the release of Confluent Platform 7.2. With this release, we are further simplifying management tasks for Apache Kafka® operators, providing even more flexible options to […]

In a modern data stack, being able to discover, understand, organize and reuse data is key to obtaining the most value from your data. These requirements have led to the […]

As part of our series walking through how we built Confluent Cloud into a 10x better Apache Kafka® service, we explored how Confluent Cloud uses Intelligent Storage to achieve 10x […]

Understanding how data flows and is transformed across the different layers of an organization’s application and data stack is one of the most challenging governance problems companies are facing today. […]

Dealing with garbage in, garbage out (GIGO) has tormented data teams for generations. Analytics and decision making have suffered from this “garbage”. The new era of machine learning and being […]

Confluent for Kubernetes (CFK) has added declarative API support for Cluster Linking, allowing you to connect public and private cloud environments with a declarative API. Confluent for Kubernetes provides a […]

Real-time data streaming necessitates a new way to think about modern data system design. In the keynote at Kafka Summit London 2022, Confluent CEO Jay Kreps described five principles of […]

An inevitable consequence of rapid business growth is that there will be incidents: even the best, most well-planned systems will begin to fail when you expand them very quickly. The […]