7 Must-Have CLI Tools Every Apache Kafka Engineer Should Know in 2025
The OSO engineers have worked with over 200 Kafka deployments, and there’s one pattern we see repeatedly – teams struggling with the basic kafka-console-consumer and…
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From Oracle to MongoDB: How to Modernize Your Tech Stack for Real-Time AI Decisioning
Turn legacy Oracle data into real-time AI insights using Kafka, Flink, and MongoDB. Learn how to stream, enrich, and personalize faster than batch ever could.…
Introducing Private Network Interface: Secure Private Networking on AWS for 50% Less
Discover how Confluent’s new Private Network Interface (PNI) on AWS delivers secure, low-latency Kafka connectivity while cutting networking costs by up to 50%. This post…
Confluent Announces $200M Investment Across Global Partner Ecosystem
Learn how Confluent’s $200M investment in its global partner network will help CSPs, ISVs, and SIs accelerate growth and AI-driven innovation with data streaming. This…
Integrating Apache Kafka and Zero ETL via Confluent Tableflow
Confluent Tableflow unifies operational and analytical data by integrating Kafka with zero ETL, leveraging open table formats such as Iceberg and Delta Lake. This post…
Apache Kafka’s KRaft Protocol: How to Eliminate Zookeeper and Boost Performance by 8x
In the Apache Kafka ecosystem, metadata management has long been the Achilles’ heel of cluster operations. For years, we’ve wrestled with Zookeeper dependencies, watched clusters…
How to Build Truly Idempotent Kafka Consumers: A Mathematical Approach to Handling Duplicates
Every Kafka engineer has faced the dreaded duplicate message scenario. You’ve configured your producers for exactly-once semantics, implemented careful error handling, and yet somehow duplicate…
Confluent Enables Agility and Helps You Drives Savings as Markets Shift
Confluent helps businesses gain agility and drive savings amid market shifts. Unlock real-time insights, optimize operations, and respond faster to change. This post first appeared…
Where Curiosity Meets Collaboration: A Senior Engineer’s Perspective
Read this Confluent Champion post to learn how a senior software engineer grows through continuous learning, deep collaboration, and a culture that fuels innovation. This…
How to Build High-Performance Kafka Streams Applications That Scale Beyond Partition Limits
Every Kafka Streams engineer eventually hits the same wall: your application is processing one record at a time, one task at a time, and you’ve…
How NeuBird’s Hawkeye Automates Incident Resolution in Confluent Cloud
Read the blog to learn how the combination of Confluent Cloud and Hawkeye—NeuBird’s AI agent—ensures enhanced observability, automated incident response, and more. This post first…
Building Streaming Data Pipelines, Part 2: Data Processing and Enrichment With SQL
Follow this demo for building streaming ETL pipelines with Confluent Cloud using Flink® SQL to transform data and Tableflow to create Iceberg tables for analysis.…
How Confluent Helps You Deliver New Customer Experiences and Act on Insights Faster
Confluent’s data streaming platform uses real-time data to enable companies to deploy new features faster, cut costs, and create more personalized experiences. This post first…
Why Hosted Apache Kafka® Leaves You Holding the Bag
Tired of hidden challenges of cloud-hosted Apache Kafka®? Confluent Cloud offers a cost-effective, resilient and fully-managed experience–minus the ops burden. This post first appeared on…
Unlocking Real-Time Analytics on AWS With Tableflow, Apache Iceberg™, and the AWS Glue Data Catalog
Learn how Confluent Tableflow integrates with AWS Glue Catalog, feeding the high-quality operational data into Amazon S3 and powering your analytics use cases. This post…