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

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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Confluent

JULY 11, 2024

confluent-kafka-javascript offers two APIs for calling Kafka from JS, one KafkaJS-like & one node-rdkafka-like. Learn it by making an app w/producer, consumer & UI.

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Confluent

MAY 16, 2024

Learn how to contribute to open source Apache Kafka by writing Kafka Improvement Proposals (KIPs) that solve problems and add features! Read on for real examples.

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Uber Engineering

JULY 6, 2024

Kafka Tiered Storage, developed in collaboration with the Apache Kafka community, introduces the separation of storage and processing in brokers, significantly improving the scalability, reliability, and efficiency of Kafka clusters.

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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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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

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

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

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 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

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Covers integrating the Spring Framework featuring Kotlin with Confluent Cloud, specifically examining best practices for Kafka Streams topologies.

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Hevo

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Have you considered the simplest way to write and read messages from Kafka? If not, in this article you will discover how you can use Kafka Console Producer. You can use the Kafka Console Producer to write records to a Kafka Topic straight from the command line.

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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

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

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 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

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

JUNE 4, 2024

Make a streaming stock chart with Alpaca (data), Kafka (orchestration), Flink SQL (processing), and Streamlit (UI/app). 1 (of 2) gets data via Kafka into Flink.

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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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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

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

MAY 22, 2024

Scaling Kafka clusters up and down to meet changing demands is challenging. In this blog, learn how elastic autoscaling Enterprise clusters save you time and money.

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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

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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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

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 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

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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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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Hevo

JUNE 25, 2024

Today, a combination of Debezium and Kafka is embraced by organizations to record changes in databases and provide information to subscribers (other applications). In this article, you will learn about Kafka Debezium, features of Debezium, and how to perform event sourcing using Debezium and Kafka. Prerequisites What is Kafka?

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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

JUNE 17, 2024

Improve REST API response data w/Kafka and Flink SQL in Confluent Cloud; Automatic connector retriability combats REST flakiness; Demo w/OpenSky data.

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Hevo

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Apache Kafka has become one of the most trending event streaming platforms, and its popularity has led to wide organizational acceptance in various functions related to large-scale real-time data streams. Today, we will explore the Top 5 […]

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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

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

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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