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Potential advantages of hybrid cloud architectures include avoiding vendor lock-in, increasing system resilience, optimizing costs, and inducing price competition among cloud providers. Hybrid cloud architectures require the ability to securely […]

Today, we are proud to make Confluent Cloud available to companies leveraging the Microsoft Azure ecosystem of services, in addition to the previous rollouts on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and […]

This tutorial describes how to set up an Apache Kafka® cluster on Enterprise Pivotal Container Service (Enterprise PKS) using Confluent Operator, which allows you to deploy and run Confluent Platform […]

Go from zero to production on Apache Kafka® without talking to sales reps or building infrastructure Apache Kafka is the standard for event-driven applications. But it’s not without its challenges, […]

Robust data governance support through Schema Validation on write is now supported in Confluent Platform 5.4. Schema Validation enables the broker to verify that data produced to an Apache Kafka® […]

As a distributed system for collecting, storing, and processing data at scale, Apache Kafka® comes with its own deployment complexities. Luckily for on-premises scenarios, a myriad of deployment options are […]

Running a single Apache Kafka® cluster across multiple datacenters (DCs) is a common, yet somewhat taboo architecture. This architecture, referred to as a stretch cluster, provides several operational benefits and […]

TL;DR Following on from How to Work with Apache Kafka in Your Spring Boot Application, which shows how to get started with Spring Boot and Apache Kafka®, here I will […]

We are excited to announce the release of Confluent Cloud Schema Registry in general availability (GA), available in Confluent Cloud, our fully managed event streaming service based on Apache Kafka®. […]

When it comes to writing a connector, there are two things you need to know how to do: how to write the code itself, and helping the world know about […]

Compliance requirements often dictate that services should not store secrets as cleartext in files. These secrets may include passwords, such as the values for ssl.key.password, ssl.keystore.password, and ssl.truststore.password configuration parameters […]

Delivers the new Confluent Operator for cloud-native automation on Kubernetes, a redesigned Confluent Control Center user interface to simplify how you manage event streams, and a preview of Role-Based Access […]

Confluent Cloud, a fully managed event cloud-native streaming service that extends the value of Apache Kafka®, is simple, resilient, secure, and performant, allowing you to focus on what is important—building […]

Part 1 of this blog series by Gwen Shapira explained the benefits of schemas, contracts between services, and compatibility checking for schema evolution. In particular, using Confluent Schema Registry makes […]