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The ksqlDB Engineering Team has been hard at work preparing ksqlDB for production availability in Confluent Cloud. This is the first in a series of posts that deep dives into […]

Measuring coverage of Go code is an easy task with the built-in go test tool, but for tests that run a binary, like end-to-end tests, there’s no obvious way to […]

Mainframes are still ubiquitous, used for almost every financial transaction around the world—credit card transactions, billing, payroll, etc. You might think that working on mainframe software would be dull, requiring […]

When Confluent Schema Registry was first introduced, Apache Avro™ was initially chosen as the default format. While Avro has worked well for many users, over the years, we’ve received many […]

We are pleased to announce the release of Confluent Platform 5.5. With this release, Confluent makes event streaming more broadly accessible to developers of all backgrounds, enhancing three categories of […]

The goal of this post is to illustrate PUSH to web from Apache Kafka® with a hands-on example. Our business users are always wanting their data faster so they can […]

On behalf of the Apache Kafka® community, it is my pleasure to announce the release of Apache Kafka 2.5.0. The community has created another exciting release. We are making progress […]

If you’re like me, you may be accustomed to reading articles about event streaming that are framed by large organizations and mountains of data. We’ve read about how the event […]

Many companies have recently started to take cybersecurity and data protection even more seriously, particularly driven by the recent General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) legislation. They are increasing their investment […]

Confluent Hub launched in 2018 as a place to discover and share Apache Kafka® and Confluent Platform plugins. Users have found the site a much better place to discover useful […]

Today, we are excited to announce that after a highly productive period of being in private preview, Confluent Cloud KSQL is now production ready and available to all Confluent Cloud […]

Running fully managed Apache Kafka® as a service brings many responsibilities that leading cloud providers hide well. There is a reason why cloud services  are so popular right now— companies realize […]

Data can originate in a number of different sources—transactional databases, mobile applications, external integrations, one-time scripts, etc.—but eventually it has to be synchronized to a central data warehouse for analysis […]

Do you have data you need to get into or out of Apache Kafka®? Kafka connectors are perfect for this. There are many connectors out there, usually for well-known and […]