Confluent Blog
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.
Confluent Intelligenceの新機能：Real-Time Context Engineのアップグレードや新しいモデルのサポート、ML関数など
Real-Time Context Engineによるクエリ機能の強化、PII検出、センチメント分析、およびTimesFM、Anthropic、Fireworks AIの各モデルのサポートなど、Confluent Intelligenceの新機能をご紹介します。
Putting Apache Kafka To Use: A Practical Guide to Building an Event Streaming Platform (Part 1)
Data systems have mostly focused on the passive storage of data. Phrases like “data warehouse” or “data lake” or even the ubiquitous “data store” all evoke places data goes to […]
Stream Processing, CEP, Event Sourcing, and Data Streaming Explained
Some people call it stream processing. Others call it event streaming, complex event processing (CEP), or CQRS event sourcing. Sometimes, such buzzwords are just smoke and mirrors, invented by companies […]
What’s coming in Apache Kafka 0.8.2
I am very excited to tell you about the forthcoming 0.8.2 release of Apache Kafka. Kafka is a fault-tolerant, low-latency, high-throughput distributed messaging system used in data pipelines at several […]
Announcing Confluent, a Company for Apache Kafka® and Realtime Data
Today I’m excited to announce that Neha Narkhede, Jun Rao, and I are forming a start-up called Confluent around realtime data and the open source project Apache Kafka® that we […]