Confluent

JUNE 26, 2020

We are excited to announce the preview release of the fully managed Snowflake sink connector in Confluent Cloud, our fully managed event streaming service based on Apache Kafka®. Our managed […].

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Confluent

MAY 13, 2019

In the last year, we’ve experienced enormous growth on Confluent Cloud, our fully managed Apache Kafka ® service. Confluent Cloud now handles several GB/s of traffic—a 200-fold increase in just six months. As Confluent Cloud has grown, we’ve noticed two gaps that very clearly remain to be filled in managed Apache Kafka services.

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Confluent

DECEMBER 2, 2020

This is the eighth and final month of Project Metamorphosis: an initiative that brings the best characteristics of modern cloud-native data systems to the Apache Kafka® ecosystem, served from Confluent […].

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Confluent

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Let’s talk about the state of cloud-native Apache Kafka® and other distributed systems on Kubernetes. It’s almost KubeCon! Over the last decade, our industry has seen the rise of container […].

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Confluent

JULY 6, 2020

We are excited to announce the preview release of the fully managed Elasticsearch Service Sink Connector in Confluent Cloud, our fully managed event streaming service based on Apache Kafka®. Our […].

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Confluent

APRIL 1, 2020

Running fully managed Apache Kafka® as a service brings many responsibilities that leading cloud providers hide well. There is a reason why cloud services? are so popular right now—?companies companies realize […].

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Confluent

APRIL 9, 2019

I’m excited to announce that we’re partnering with Google Cloud to make Confluent Cloud, our fully managed offering of Apache Kafka ® , available as a native offering on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Unfortunately, the experience of using managed open source offerings in the cloud is often poor.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2021

It built a streaming data platform on top of the open-source Apache Kafka project. In addition to its open-source roots, Confluent has a free tier of its commercial cloud offering to complement its paid products, helping generate top-of-funnel inflows that it converts to sales. Is Confluent’s work with Kafka a good business?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2022

Among their supported projects are PostgresSQL, Apache Kafka, OpenSearch, ElasticSearch and Apache Cassandra. And with Cloud Hawk, Cloud Secure and CloudCheckr, we now deliver SecOps. We deliver solutions for our customers’ most pressing cloud needs — scale, performance, speed, efficiency, security and cost,” Lyn wrote.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2022

You’re often paying for resources you aren’t using, even in the cloud. For starters, it supports Redis and Kafka , two popular open source projects. When it comes to data-intensive applications, setting up the infrastructure is expensive and time-consuming. Serverless doesn’t mean there are no servers.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Aiven , a Finnish startup that helps companies combine various open source technologies with public cloud infrastructure resources, announced a $60 million investment on a $2 billion valuation today. Company CEO and co-founder Oskari Saarenmaa says the company helps take the complexity out of managing open source projects in the cloud.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2021

Kafka has existed as an open source tool for a decade. It’s built to be a Kafka replacement, while remaining Kafka-compatible to help deal with backwards compatibility. “This funding round in particular is to power our cloud,” he said. Streaming data is not new.

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Dzone - DevOps

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Apache Kafka has emerged as a clear leader in corporate architecture for moving from data at rest (DB transactions) to event streaming. There are many presentations that explain how Kafka works and how to scale this technology stack (either on-premise or cloud).

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Dzone - DevOps

APRIL 12, 2023

In my customer conversations, it most often comes up when compared to Apache Kafka. CockroachDB does not have a native Pulsar sink; however, the Pulsar project supports Kafka on Pulsar protocol support, and that's the core of today's article.

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Confluent

MAY 9, 2023

Low utilization and operational complexity dramatically increases Kafka costs, so we reinvented Kafka as a cloud-native and complete service to reduce costs for thousands of businesses at any scale.

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Dzone - DevOps

JANUARY 25, 2024

In today’s rapidly evolving technology landscape, the ability to efficiently manage resources in cloud-native environments is crucial. However, as we delve deeper into the realms of cloud computing, the need for more advanced and dynamic scaling solutions becomes evident.

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Confluent

APRIL 3, 2024

We believe we innovate every industry with real-time stream processing and analytics, cloud-native Apache Kafka®, and robust developer tooling. Learn why Confluent was named a Leader in the analytic stream processing and event brokering software markets.

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Dzone - DevOps

MAY 1, 2023

It is compatible with Kafka APIs and is used by many as an alternative to Apache Kafka due to its performance and lightweight design. Kubernetes (K8s) is the defacto platform for cloud-native environments, so it’s not surprising that many developers choose it to manage their Redpanda clusters.

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Cloudera

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

These solutions include on-premises and public cloud offerings with the data management, security and governance needed to build an enterprise data and analytic big data solution. The post IBM Technology Chooses Cloudera as its Preferred Partner for Addressing Real Time Data Movement Using Kafka appeared first on Cloudera Blog.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

Jafarpour started DeltaStream after spending several years building ksqlDB, Confluent’s streaming database platform that runs on top of Kafka — Kafka being the Apache open source project for high-throughput, low-latency data feed handling.

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Confluent

JULY 27, 2021

Serverless offerings in the cloud are a favorite among software engineers—a prime example are object stores such as AWS S3. For the system designer, however, it is an engineering challenge […].

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Confluent

JULY 18, 2023

Gain the easiest solution for data streaming and increase data flow to your platform through native integrations with Confluent Cloud and 120+ Kafka connectors.

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DevOps.com

JANUARY 27, 2023

Once a niche element of data engineering, streaming data is the new normal—more than 80% of Fortune 100 companies have adopted Apache Kafka, the most common streaming platform, and every major cloud provider (AWS, Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure) has launched its own streaming service.

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Confluent

AUGUST 31, 2023

Learn how Confluent’s cloud-native Apache Kafka engine stood out from other data management systems with its uniquely elastic, reliable, and cost-efficient design

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Dzone - DevOps

DECEMBER 23, 2023

In previous posts, we have seen how to implement distributed configuration and service discovery in Spring Cloud. This protocol involves messaging architectures, with message brokers like RabbitMQ and Apache Kafka. In this article, we will discuss how to implement REST calls between microservices.

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Confluent

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Discover how DISH Wireless unlocks telco use cases by implementing a streaming data mesh using Confluent Cloud, a fully managed, cloud-native Apache Kafka® service.

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Confluent

JANUARY 24, 2024

Learn why Confluent was named as a leader among cloud data pipelines, innovating, in our opinion, every industry with real-time stream processing and analytics, cloud-native Apache Kafka®, and robust developer tooling.

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Confluent

MARCH 9, 2022

Within a few minutes, you provision a fully managed Apache Kafka® cluster […]. Imagine your team wants to design a data streaming architecture and you’re in charge of creating the prototype.

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Confluent

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Bring Kafka to the edge by configuring the Ably Kafka Connector as a customer connector on Confluent Cloud.

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Toptal

JANUARY 29, 2023

With the rise of big data, cloud, and streaming platforms, monolithic apps just won’t do. Here’s a blueprint for an adaptable and scalable event-driven microservices project using Kafka and Python.

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TIBCO - Connected Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

If you’re using Kafka, chances are you have lots of data floating around and no way to analyze it. Getting insights from Kafka can be difficult. And, it is impossible to get insights from Kafka without knowing how to code. That means that business users can now analyze all their kafka data in real time! Click To Tweet.

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Dzone - DevOps

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

To support the above scenarios, Apache Kafka acts like a central nervous system where data can be ingested from various IoT devices and persisted into various types of the repository, RDBMS, cloud storage, etc. Besides, various types of data pipelines can be executed before or after data arrives at Kafka’s topic.

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Dzone - DevOps

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

There are several ways to do this, but one of the most compelling is using the MQTT protocol to send IoT data via Apache Kafka for further processing in a system of your choice. A common question is how you actually process the data collected from IoT devices.

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Cloudera

JANUARY 31, 2024

Streams Replication Manager (SRM) is an enterprise-grade replication solution that enables fault tolerant, scalable, and robust cross-cluster Kafka topic replication. Introduction Kafka as an event streaming component can be applied to a wide variety of use cases. Starting with Cloudera Data Platform (CDP) Private Cloud Base 7.1.9,

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Confluent

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Learn Confluent’s benefits as a leader among streaming data platforms, innovating every industry with real-time stream processing and analytics, cloud-native Apache Kafka, and robust developer tooling.

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Confluent

MARCH 19, 2021

LiveStreams is a YouTube show about Confluent, real-time data streaming, and related technologies that help you maximize data in motion on any cloud. Every episode of LiveStreams will teach you […].

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Confluent

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Extensive out-of-the-box functionality, a large user community, and up-to-date, cloud-native features make Spring and its libraries a strong option for anchoring your Apache Kafka® and Confluent Cloud based microservices architecture. […].

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