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If you adopt a streaming platform such as Apache Kafka, one of the most important questions to answer is: what topics are you going to use? In particular, if you […]

Apache Kafka and Apache Mesos are very well-known and successful Apache projects. A lot has happened in these projects since Confluent’s last blog post on the topic in July 2015. […]

Good news! The agenda and speakers for the first-ever Kafka Summit in London have been announced. If you’ve been to one of the Summits in New York or San Francisco, […]

We are very excited to announce the December release of KSQL, the streaming SQL engine for Apache Kafka®! As we announced in the November release blog, we are releasing KSQL […]

Confluent Platform is the central nervous system for a business, uniting your organization around a Kafka-based single source of truth. Apache Kafka® has been in production at thousands of companies […]

This blog post is the third and last in a series about the exactly-once semantics for Apache Kafka®. See Exactly-once Semantics are Possible: Here’s How Kafka Does it for the […]

Mission critical applications built on Kafka need a robust and Kafka-specific monitoring solution that is performant, scalable, durable, highly available, and secure. Confluent Control Center helps monitor your Kafka deployments […]

If you follow the press around Apache Kafka you’ll probably know it’s pretty good at tracking and retaining messages, but sometimes removing messages is important too. GDPR is a good […]

Bobby Calderwood is a Distinguished Engineer at Capital One, where he influences the technical direction of Capital One and engages the broader community via speaking and open-source contributions. In the […]

I am very excited to announce the general availability of Confluent Platform 4.0, the enterprise distribution of Apache Kafka 1.0. This release includes a number of significant improvements, including enhancements […]