Confluent

JULY 29, 2024

Apache Kafka 3.8 adds 17 new KIPs (13 for Core, 3 for Streams & 1 for Connect). Highlights include 2 new Docker images, the ability to set task assignors, and more!

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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 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

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

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Apache Kafka® is an event streaming platform used by more than 30% of the Fortune 500 today. There are numerous features of Kafka that make it the de-facto standard for […].

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Waitingforcode

MAY 4, 2023

Today I'll focus on these differences for Amazon Kinesis service and Apache Kafka ecosystem. The managed cloud services often share the same fundamentals as their Open alternatives. However, there is always something different.

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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

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Operating critical Apache Kafka® event streaming applications in production requires sound automation and engineering practices. Streaming applications are often at the center of your transaction processing and data systems, requiring […].

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Confluent

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Apache Kafka® is at the heart of the data transportation layer at Pinterest. The amount of data that runs through Kafka has constantly grown over the years. This growth sometimes […].

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Confluent

APRIL 19, 2021

I’m proud to announce the release of Apache Kafka 2.8.0 on behalf of the Apache Kafka® community. release contains many new features and improvements. This blog post highlights […].

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Confluent

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Dive into Kafka internals with a four-part series examining client requests and brokers. Part 1 covers what a producer does to prepare raw event data for the broker.

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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

AUGUST 21, 2020

Apache Kafka® is one of the most popular event streaming systems. Kafka […]. There are many ways to compare systems in this space, but one thing everyone cares about is performance.

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Confluent

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Queue support in Apache Kafka 4.0, enabled by share groups, lets you accommodate traditional queue-type workloads through cooperative consumption.

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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

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

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Soon, Apache Kafka® will no longer need ZooKeeper! With KIP-500, Kafka will include its own built-in consensus layer, removing the ZooKeeper dependency altogether. The next big milestone in this effort […].

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Waitingforcode

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

You can limit the max throughput for Apache Spark Structured Streaming jobs for popular data sources such as Apache Kafka, Delta Lake, or raw files. Have you known that you can also control the lower limit, at least for Apache Kafka? I bet you know it already.

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Snowflake

MARCH 2, 2023

As part of this, we are also supporting Snowpipe Streaming as an ingestion method for our Snowflake Connector for Kafka. Now we are able to ingest our data in near real time directly from Kafka topics to a Snowflake table, drastically reducing the cost of ingestion and improving our SLA from 15 minutes to within 60 seconds.

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DoorDash Engineering

MARCH 27, 2024

At DoorDash, we rely on message queue systems based on Kafka to handle billions of real-time events. We will delve here into how we set up multi-tenancy with a messaging queue system based on Kafka. In Kafka, a test tenant processing production event can cause data inconsistencies, including outages and other incidents.

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Confluent

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Extensive out-of-the-box functionality, a large user community, and up-to-date, cloud-native features make Spring and its libraries a strong option for anchoring your Apache Kafka® and Confluent Cloud based 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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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

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

One of the great things about using an Apache Kafka® based architecture is that it naturally decouples systems and allows you to use the best tool for the job. While […].

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Confluent

OCTOBER 27, 2020

As described in the blog post Apache Kafka® Needs No Keeper: Removing the Apache ZooKeeper Dependency, when KIP-500 lands next year, Apache Kafka will replace its usage of Apache ZooKeeper […].

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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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Start Data Engineering

MAY 9, 2020

Change data capture is a software design pattern used to capture changes to data and take corresponding action based on that change. The change to data is usually one of read, update or delete. The corresponding action usually is supposed to occur in another system in response to the change that was made in the source system.

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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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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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Confluent

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

In the final article of this four-part series on Kafka producer and consumer internals, observe the inner workings of brokers as they attempt to serve data up to consumers.

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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

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Kafka-on-Windows tutorials are everywhere, but most run Kafka directly on Windows. Here's how to use Kafka on Windows in a Linux environment backed by WSL 2, maximizing performance and stability

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Confluent

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Welcome Pythonistas to the streaming data world centered around Apache Kafka®! If you’re using Python and ready to get hands-on with Kafka, then you’re in the right place. This blog […].

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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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Confluent

DECEMBER 11, 2020

This blog post shows how transactional machine learning (TML) integrates data streams with automated machine learning (AutoML), using Apache Kafka® as the data backbone, to create a frictionless machine learning […].

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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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