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In the previous article in this blog series I showed how easy it is to stream data out of a database into Apache Kafka®, using the Kafka Connect API. I

This short series of articles is going to show you how to stream data from a database (MySQL) into Apache Kafka® and from Kafka into both a text file and Elasticsearch—all

There has been a lot of talk recently that traditional ETL is dead. In the traditional ETL paradigm, data warehouses were king, ETL jobs were batch-driven, everything talked to everything

This is a guest blog from Alexandra Wang, Software Engineer, Pandora Media. You can connect with her on LinkedIn. Also special thanks to Lawrence Weikum and Stu Thompson as contributors of the work in this post.

Note As of February 2021, Confluent has launched its own Oracle CDC connector. Read this blog post for the latest information.

On May 24, we announced Confluent Control Center, an application for managing and monitoring a Kafka-based streaming platform. Control Center has a beautiful user interface, and under the surface we

For a long time, a substantial portion of data processing that companies did ran as big batch jobs — CSV files dumped out of databases, log files collected at the

Apache Kafka is a high-throughput distributed message system that is being adopted by hundreds of companies to manage their real-time data. Companies use Kafka for many applications (real time stream

I ran into the schema-management problem while working with my second Hadoop customer. Until then, there was one true database and the database was responsible for managing schemas and pretty

Data systems have mostly focused on the passive storage of data. Phrases like “data warehouse” or “data lake” or even the ubiquitous “data store” all evoke places data goes to