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Most people think that what’s exciting about distributed systems is the ability to support really big applications. When you read a blog about a new distributed database, it usually talks

Apache Kafka (the basis for the Confluent Platform) delivers an advanced stream processing platform for streaming data across AWS, GCP, and Azure at scale, used by thousands of companies. Amazon

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

This is a guest blog from Fangjin Yang. Fangjin is the co-founder and CEO of Imply, a San Francisco based technology company, and one of the main committers of the Druid

The following post was written by guest blogger Duncan Pauly from JustOne. JustOne is a member of the Confluent partner program. Duncan is the Chief Technology Officer at JustOne and possesses over two decades of senior technical

Apache Kafka is designed to be highly performant, reliable, scalable, and fault tolerant. At the same time, the performance and reliability of a Kafka cluster is highly dependent on the

This post was written by guest blogger Rajiv Kurian from SignalFx. SignalFx is a member of the Confluent partner program. Rajiv is a software engineer with over five years experience building

I’m happy to announce that Confluent will be hosting the first Stream Data Hackathon this April 25th in San Francisco! Apache Kafka has recently introduced two new major features: Kafka

Important: The information in this article is outdated. With recent Kafka versions the integration between Kafka Connect and Kafka Streams as well as KSQL has become much simpler and easier.

I’m really excited to announce a major new feature in Apache Kafka v0.10: Kafka’s Streams API. The Streams API, available as a Java library that is part of the official