Confluent Blog

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.

The following post is a guest blog by Paige Roberts, Product Manager, Syncsort. Paige spent 19 years in the data management industry in a wide variety of roles – programmer, analyst, trainer,

This is a guest blog from Robin Moffatt. Robin Moffatt is Head of R&D (Europe) at Rittman Mead, and an Oracle ACE. His particular interests are analytics, systems architecture, administration, and

Amazon’s AWS cloud is doing really well. Doing well to the tune of making $2.57 Billion in Q1 2016. That’s 64% up from Q1 last year. Clearly a lot of

This guest post is written by Andrew Stevenson, CTO at DataMountaineer. Andrew focuses on providing real-time data pipelines allowing reactive decision making, streaming analytics and big data integration. He has

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

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

I am very excited to announce the availability of the 0.10 release of Apache Kafka and the 3.0 release of the Confluent Platform. This release marks the availability of Kafka

Last week, Confluent hosted Kafka Summit, the first ever conference to focus on Apache Kafka and stream processing. It was exciting to see the stream processing community coming together in

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