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There are two basic models for evaluating the cost of any technology. Organizations often gravitate to return on investment (ROI) because it models a clear financial return. Total cost of

We’re happy to announce that Confluent Cloud, our cloud-native service for Apache Kafka®, now supports Azure Private Link for secure network connectivity, in addition to the existing Azure Virtual Network

Self-managing a distributed system like Apache Kafka®, along with building and operating Kafka connectors, is complex and resource intensive. It requires significant Kafka skills and expertise in the development and

In order for a technology like Confluent Cloud to make it easy to set data in motion, many different software systems are required to interact with each other using API

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 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

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

Note: Please see the blog post Introducing Cluster RBAC, Audit Logs, and BYOK for Enterprise-Grade Security for the latest updates.

The cloud opens up exciting new opportunities for information gathering, analysis, and sharing that can make every organization’s products and services better. Thanks to the cloud and its decentralized nature,