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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.
It's Okay To Store Data In Kafka
A question people often ask about Apache Kafka® is whether it is okay to use it for longer term storage. Kafka, as you might know, stores a log of records, […]
How Apache Kafka is Tested
Introduction Apache Kafka® is used in thousands of companies, including some of the most demanding, large scale, and critical systems in the world. Its largest users run Kafka across thousands […]
The Simplest Useful Kafka Connect Data Pipeline in the World…or Thereabouts – Part 3
We saw in the earlier articles (part 1, part 2) in this series how to use the Kafka Connect API to build out a very simple, but powerful and scalable, streaming […]
Publishing with Apache Kafka at The New York Times
At The New York Times we have a number of different systems that are used for producing content. We have several Content Management Systems, and we use third-party data and […]
Introducing KSQL: Streaming SQL for Apache Kafka
Note ksqlDB is the successor to KSQL. Read the announcement to learn more. To get started with ksqlDB in Confluent Cloud, you can sign up for fully managed Apache Kafka […]
The Simplest Useful Kafka Connect Data Pipeline in the World…or Thereabouts – Part 2
In the previous article in this blog series I showed how easy it is to stream data out of a database into Apache Kafka®, using the Kafka Connect API. I […]
Leveraging the Power of a Database ‘Unbundled’
When you build microservices using Apache Kafka®, the log can be used as more than just a communication protocol. It can be used to store events: messaging that remembers. This […]
The Simplest Useful Kafka Connect Data Pipeline in the World…or Thereabouts – Part 1
This short series of articles is going to show you how to stream data from a database (MySQL) into Apache Kafka® and from Kafka into both a text file and Elasticsearch—all […]
Messaging as the Single Source of Truth
This post discusses Event Sourcing in the context of Apache Kafka®, examining the need for a single source of truth that spans entire service estates. Events are Truth One of […]
We’ll Say This Exactly Once: Confluent Platform 3.3 is Available Now
Confluent Platform and Apache Kafka® have come a long way from the time of their origin story. Like superheroes finding out they have powers, the latest updates always seem to […]
Chain Services with Exactly-Once Guarantees
This fourth post in the microservices series looks at how we can sew together complex chains of services, efficiently, and accurately, using Apache Kafka’s Exactly-Once guarantees. Duplicates, Duplicates Everywhere Any […]
Using Apache Kafka as a Scalable, Event-Driven Backbone for Service Architectures
The last post in this microservices series looked at building systems on a backbone of events, where events become both a trigger as well as a mechanism for distributing state. […]
Upgrading Apache Kafka Clients Just Got Easier
This is a very exciting time to be part of the Apache Kafka® community! Every four months, a new Apache Kafka release brings additional features and improvements. We’re particularly excited […]
Exactly-Once Semantics Are Possible: Here’s How Kafka Does It
I’m thrilled that we have hit an exciting milestone the Apache Kafka® community has long been waiting for: we have introduced exactly-once semantics in Kafka in the 0.11 release and […]