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Confluent Platform 6.0 was released last year bringing with it many exciting new features to Confluent REST Proxy. Before we dive into what was added, let’s first revisit what REST

This blog post presents the use cases and architectures of REST APIs and Confluent REST Proxy, and explores a new management API and improved integrations into Confluent Server and Confluent

Asynchronous boundaries. Frameworks. Configuring frameworks. Apache Kafka®. All of these share one thing in common: complexity in testing. Now imagine them combined—it gets much harder. This is the final blog

It’s 3:00 am and PagerDuty keeps firing you alerts about your application being down. You need to figure out what the issue is, if it’s impacting users, and resolve it

Many organisations rely on commercial or open source monitoring tools to measure the performance and stability of business-critical applications. AppDynamics, Datadog, and Prometheus are widely used commercial and open source

Imagine you’ve got a stream of data; it’s not “big data,” but it’s certainly a lot. Within the data, you’ve got some bits you’re interested in, and of those bits,

When building API-driven web applications, there is one key metric that engineering teams should minimize: the blocked factor. The blocked factor measures how much time developers spend in the following

Traditional relational database systems are ubiquitous in software systems. They are surrounded by a strong ecosystem of tools, such as object-relational mappers and schema migration helpers. Relational databases also provide

One of the football (as per European terminology) highlights of the summer is the FIFA Women’s World Cup. France, Brazil, and the USA are the favourites, and this year Italy

When you build microservices architectures, one of the concerns you need to address is that of communication between the microservices. At first, you may think to use REST APIs—most programming