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We are pleased to announce the release of Confluent Platform 6.1. With this release, we are further simplifying management tasks for Apache Kafka® operators and providing even higher availability for […]

How do you process IoT data, change data capture (CDC) data, or streaming data from sensors, applications, and sources in real time? Apache Kafka® and Apache Spark® are widely adopted […]

This year’s pandemic has forced businesses all around the world to adopt a “remote-first” approach to their operations, with an emphasis on better enabling collaboration, remote work, and productivity. This […]

Confluent uses property-based testing to test various aspects of Confluent Cloud’s Tiered Storage feature. Tiered Storage shifts data from expensive local broker disks to cheaper, scalable object storage, thereby reducing […]

Confluent Platform 6.0 was released last year bringing with it many exciting new features to Confluent REST Proxy. Before we dive into what was added, let’s first revisit what REST […]

Consuming messages in parallel is what Apache Kafka® is all about, so you may well wonder, why would we want anything else? It turns out that, in practice, there are […]

Data is the currency of competitive advantage in today’s digital age. All organizations struggle with their data due to the sheer variety of data types and ways that it can […]

Organizations define standards and policies around the usage of data to ensure the following: Data quality: Data streams follow the defined data standards as represented in schemas Data evolvability: Schemas […]

This is the eighth and final month of Project Metamorphosis: an initiative that brings the best characteristics of modern cloud-native data systems to the Apache Kafka® ecosystem, served from Confluent […]

Due to the distributed architecture of Apache Kafka®, the operational burden of managing it can quickly become a limiting factor on adoption and developer agility. For this reason, it is […]

It’s almost KubeCon! Let’s talk about the state of cloud-native Apache Kafka® and other distributed systems on Kubernetes. Over the last decade, our industry has seen the rise of container […]

Have you ever had to write a program that needed to handle any data payload that could be thrown at you? If so, did you always have to update the […]

The rise of the cloud introduced a focus on rapid iteration and agility that is founded on specialization. If you are an application developer, you know your applications better than […]

Event modeling has always been a pain point in organizations. From figuring out the standard format of your schemas, processing said data models effectively, and finally testing before you deploy […]