Confluent

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Apache Kafka 3.6 brings Tiered Storage Early Access, migrating clusters from ZooKeeper to KRaft with no downtime, a grace period for stream-table joins, and more!

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Confluent

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Kafka Streams is an abstraction over Apache Kafka® producers and consumers that lets you forget about low-level details and focus on processing your Kafka data. You could of course write […].

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Waitingforcode

MAY 11, 2023

I have used to say "Kinesis Data Streams is like Apache Kafka, an append-only streaming broker with partitions and offsets". Although often it's true, it's not that simple unfortunately.

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Confluent

MAY 17, 2022

I’m proud to announce the release of Apache Kafka 3.2.0 on behalf of the Apache Kafka® community. release contains many new features and improvements. This blog will highlight […].

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Confluent

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

The mission-critical deployments, the robust feature set, the long history all say that Kafka is an Enterprise-capable product. Apache Kafka is going 1.0!

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Kafka 104

Confluent

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

The full inventory of three online Kafka Summits in 2021 is now complete. Kafka Summit Americas wrapped just yesterday. Being a part of the event team and the Program Committee, […].

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Confluent

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Apache Kafka 3.3 includes KRaft mode, improves partition scalability and resiliency while simplifying Kafka deployment, as well as updates to Kafka Streams, Connect, and more.

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Confluent

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Migrate Kafka clusters from ZooKeeper to KRaft with no downtime (early access), get improvements for Kafka Streams and Kafka Connect, and more.

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Confluent

MARCH 26, 2024

In this guide, you will learn how to track events in a large codebase like GitHub using Apache Kafka and Kafka Streams.

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Confluent

MAY 9, 2023

Low utilization and operational complexity dramatically increases Kafka costs, so we reinvented Kafka as a cloud-native and complete service to reduce costs for thousands of businesses at any scale.

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Confluent

MAY 15, 2023

Take a tour of the internals of Confluent’s Apache Kafka® service, powered by Kora: the next-generation, cloud-native streaming engine.Kora.

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Confluent

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

The top 7 free online courses, tutorials, get started guides, and examples for the easiest way to learn Apache Kafka.

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Kafka 131

Confluent

APRIL 17, 2024

Kafka Summit Bangalore 2024 brings 35+ sessions, keynotes, lightning talks, and more from industry leaders. Check out the agenda, highlights, networking events, and more event info.

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Confluent

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Learn how Apache Kafka message compression works, why and how to use it, the five types of compression, configurations for the compression type, and how messages are decompressed.

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Confluent

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

I’m pleased to announce the release of Apache Kafka 3.0 on behalf of the Apache Kafka® community. Apache Kafka 3.0 is a major release in more ways than one. Apache […].

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Confluent

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

There are two main consumer group memberships in Apache Kafka®. Here’s how static and dynamic consumer groups work, how they affect rebalancing, and which to choose for your application.

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Kafka 120

Confluent

APRIL 18, 2024

Learn how to use kafka-docker-composer, a simple tool to create a docker-compose.yml file for failover testing, to understand cluster settings like Kraft, and for app development.

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Kafka 57

Confluent

MAY 11, 2023

Running Kafka is costly, but Confluent has created a far more efficient product to lower your costs. Join the Cost Savings challenge to see for yourself.

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Kafka 142

Confluent

MARCH 30, 2021

At the heart of Apache Kafka® sits the log—a simple data structure that uses sequential operations that work symbiotically with the underlying hardware. Efficient disk buffering and CPU cache usage, […].

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Confluent

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Want to run Kafka on AWS? Our full tutorial provides expert recommendations on how to deploy, monitor, and manage Kafka clusters on AWS.

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Confluent

DECEMBER 2, 2022

To prioritize the safety of our community, we are transforming Kafka Summit Austin into a virtual experience. We are excited to invite the global Kafka community to Kafka Summit 2020: Event Streaming Everywhere.

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Confluent

JUNE 28, 2023

Get an introduction into the world of events and event-driven architecture in Apache Kafka. Learn what events are and the role they play in event design, event streaming, and event-driven design.

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Kafka Architecture Designing 109

Confluent

JANUARY 6, 2023

Introducing fully managed Apache Kafka® + Flink for the most robust, cloud-native data streaming platform with stream processing, integration, and streaming analytics in one.

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Confluent

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Each one of the more than 50 tutorials for Apache Kafka® on Confluent Developer answers a question that you might ask a knowledgeable friend or colleague about Kafka and its […].

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Confluent

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Apache Kafka® is an enormously successful piece of data infrastructure, functioning as the ubiquitous distributed log underlying the modern enterprise. It is scalable, available as a managed service, and has […].

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Confluent

MAY 17, 2021

And that’s a wrap on Kafka Summit Europe 2021, the first of three global Kafka Summits this year. We’ve seen 17,000 registrations from over 7,000 companies and 137 different countries. […].

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Kafka 122

Confluent

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Kafka Summit London 2024 brings 90+ sessions, keynotes, lightning talks, and more from industry leaders. Check out the agenda, highlights, networking events, and more event info.

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Kafka 67

Confluent

JANUARY 11, 2022

Whether you’re a seasoned Apache Kafka® developer or just getting started you’re likely to hit a snag at some point or another—either in configuring and understanding your clients or setting […].

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Confluent

JANUARY 20, 2021

Apache Kafka® is at the core of a large ecosystem that includes powerful components, such as Kafka Connect and Kafka Streams. This ecosystem also includes many tools and utilities that […].

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Confluent

AUGUST 17, 2022

Confluent Hackathon ‘22: Using Apache Kafka a Raspberry Pi, and a camera, Simon Aubury builds a detection and monitoring system to better understand wildlife population trends over time.

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Confluent

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Major improvements to the Kafka consumer, Streams, and ksqlDB for incremental cooperative rebalancing while maintaining at-least-once and exactly-once guarantees.

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Confluent

APRIL 24, 2023

Kafka Summit 2023 brings 60+ sessions, keynotes, and lightning talks, and more from industry leaders. Check out the agenda, highlights, networking events, and more event info.

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Kafka 73

Confluent

JUNE 11, 2021

Managing Apache Kafka® clusters can be tricky sometimes. To solve this problem, Confluent Control Center helps you easily manage and monitor your clusters and interact with other Confluent components, such […].

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Confluent

DECEMBER 2, 2022

ksqlDB use case: see how apps can use ksqlDB to ingest, filter, enrich, aggregate, and query data directly with Kafka—no complex architectures or data stores needed.

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Confluent

APRIL 14, 2022

It’s not difficult to get started with Apache Kafka®. If you are new to Kafka, […]. Learning resources can be found all over the internet, especially on the Confluent Developer site.

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Kafka 124

Confluent

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

How to use Kafka Streams to aggregate change data capture (CDC) messages from a relational database into transactional messages, powering a scalable microservices architecture.

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Confluent

JULY 26, 2022

Explore GitHub Actions for your Kafka CI/CD pipeline, automate Schema Registry, and transform the development and testing of Kafka client applications.

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