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More than ever before, people demand immediacy in every aspect of their lives. Expectations for how we shop, bank, and commute have completely evolved over the last decade. When you […]

Company mergers are becoming more common as businesses strive to improve performance and grow market share by saving costs and eliminating competition through acquisitions. But how do business mergers relate […]

When I have a small software project that I want to share with the world, I don’t write my own version control system with a web UI. I don’t even […]

Many organisations rely on commercial or open source monitoring tools to measure the performance and stability of business-critical applications. AppDynamics, Datadog, and Prometheus are widely used commercial and open source […]

In April, we kicked off Project Metamorphosis. Project Metamorphosis is an effort to bring the simplicity of best of breed cloud systems to the world of event streaming. It is […]

COVID-19 has created extraordinary challenges in virtually every industry. While much attention has been focused on the pandemic’s effect on travel, hospitality, airline, and healthcare industries, its impact on state […]

Apache Kafka® is the de facto standard for event streaming today. The semantics of the partitioned consumer model that Kafka pioneered have enabled scale at a level and at a […]

At Confluent, every now and then we like to take a day away from our normal sprint tasks to hack. There are a ton of benefits to hack days, including: […]

When a client wants to send or receive a message from Apache Kafka®, there are two types of connection that must succeed: The initial connection to a broker (the […]

We are excited to announce the preview release of the fully managed MongoDB Atlas source and sink connectors in Confluent Cloud, our fully managed event streaming service based on Apache […]

Most organisations maintain fleets, a collection of vehicles put to use for day-to-day operations. Telcos use a variety of vehicles including cars, vans, and trucks for service, delivery, and maintenance. […]

The rise of IoT devices means that we have to collect, process, and analyze orders of magnitude more data than ever before. As sensors and devices become ever more ubiquitous, […]

This is the second of a series of posts (part 1 | part 3) that dive deep into key improvements made to ksqlDB to prepare for production availability in Confluent […]

Over a year ago, Confluent set out on a mission to improve user experience by empowering developers, operators, and architects with intuitive command line interfaces (CLIs) for managing their Confluent […]