Elastic Scaling in the Streams API in Kafka
This blog post is the first in a series about the Streams API of Apache Kafka, the new stream processing library of the Apache Kafka project, which was introduced in Kafka v0.10. Current […]
Log Compaction | Highlights in the Apache Kafka and Stream Processing Community | July 2016
Here comes the July 2016 edition of Log Compaction, a monthly digest of highlights in the Apache Kafka and stream processing community. Want to share some exciting news on this […]
Build and monitor Kafka pipelines with Confluent Control Center
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 […]
Distributed, Real-time Joins and Aggregations on User Activity Events using Kafka Streams
In previous blog posts we introduced Kafka Streams and demonstrated an end-to-end Hello World streaming application that analyzes Wikipedia real-time updates through a combination of Kafka Streams and Kafka Connect. […]
Apache Kafka and Kafka Streams at Berlin Buzzwords
At the beginning of June several Confluent team members attended Berlin Buzzwords 2016, where we gave three talks focused on stream processing and distributed computing. These talks, which we summarize […]
Building a Streaming Analytics Stack with Apache Kafka and Druid
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 […]
Kafka Connect Sink for PostgreSQL from JustOne Database
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 […]
Log Compaction | Highlights in the Apache Kafka and Stream Processing Community | June 2016
After months of testing efforts and seven voting rounds, Apache Kafka 0.10.0 and the corresponding Confluent Platform 3.0 have been finally released, cheers!
Announcing Apache Kafka 0.10 and Confluent Platform 3.0
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 […]
Log Compaction | Kafka Summit Edition | May 2016
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 […]