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  Announcing the Confluent Community Catalyst Program
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  A technology community is made up of people. Without people writing code, writing tutorials, welcoming newcomers, giving presentations, and answering questions, what we have is not a community, but just […]
  
  https://www.confluent.io/blog/announcing-confluent-community-catalyst-program
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  Introducing a Cloud-Native Experience for Apache Kafka in Confluent Cloud
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  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 […]
  
  https://www.confluent.io/blog/introducing-cloud-native-experience-for-apache-kafka-in-confluent-cloud
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  Journey to Event Driven – Part 4: Four Pillars of Event Streaming Microservices
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  So far in this series, we have recognized that by going back to first principles, we have a new foundation to work with. Event-first thinking enables us to build a […]
  
  https://www.confluent.io/blog/journey-to-event-driven-part-4-four-pillars-of-event-streaming-microservices
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  Dawn of Kafka DevOps: Managing Multi-Cluster Kafka Connect and KSQL with Confluent Control Center
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  In anything but the smallest deployment of Apache Kafka®, there are often going to be multiple clusters of Kafka Connect and KSQL. Kafka Connect is used for building event streaming […]
  
  https://www.confluent.io/blog/dawn-of-kafka-devops-managing-multi-cluster-kafka-connect-and-ksql-with-confluent-control-center
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  Apache Kafka Data Access Semantics: Consumers and Membership
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  Every developer who uses Apache Kafka® has used a Kafka consumer at least once. Although it is the simplest way to subscribe to and access events from Kafka, behind the […]
  
  https://www.confluent.io/blog/apache-kafka-data-access-semantics-consumers-and-membership
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  Dawn of DevOps: Managing Apache Kafka Clusters at Scale with Confluent Control Center
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  When managing Apache Kafka® clusters at scale, tasks that are simple on small clusters turn into significant burdens. To be fair, a lot of things turn into significant burdens at […]
  
  https://www.confluent.io/blog/dawn-of-devops-managing-apache-kafka-clusters-at-scale-with-confluent-control-center
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  The PipelineDB Team Joins Confluent
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  Some years ago, when I was at LinkedIn, I didn’t really know what Apache Kafka® would become but had an inkling that the next generation of applications would not be […]
  
  https://www.confluent.io/blog/pipelinedb-team-joins-confluent
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  Optimizing Kafka Streams Applications
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  With the release of Apache Kafka® 2.1.0, Kafka Streams introduced the processor topology optimization framework at the Kafka Streams DSL layer. This framework opens the door for various optimization techniques […]
  
  https://www.confluent.io/blog/optimizing-kafka-streams-applications
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  Creating an IoT-Based, Data-Driven Food Value Chain with Confluent Cloud
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  Industries are oftentimes more complex than we think. For example, the dinner you order at a restaurant or the ingredients you buy (or have delivered) to cook dinner at home […]
  
  https://www.confluent.io/blog/creating-iot-based-data-driven-food-value-chain-with-confluent-cloud
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  Testing Event-Driven Systems
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  So you’ve convinced your friends and stakeholders about the benefits of event-driven systems. You have successfully piloted a few services backed by Apache Kafka®, and it is now supporting business-critical […]
  
  https://www.confluent.io/blog/testing-event-driven-systems
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  12 Programming Languages Walk into a Kafka Cluster…
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  When it was first created, Apache Kafka® had a client API for just Scala and Java. Since then, the Kafka client API has been developed for many other programming languages […]
  
  https://www.confluent.io/blog/12-programming-languages-walk-into-a-kafka-cluster
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  Reshaping Entire Industries with IoT and Confluent Cloud
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  While the current hype around the Internet of Things (IoT) focuses on smart “things”—smart homes, smart cars, smart watches—the first known IoT device was a simple Coca-Cola vending machine at […]
  
  https://www.confluent.io/blog/reshaping-entire-industries-with-iot-and-confluent-cloud
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  Dawn of DevOps: Managing and Evolving Schemas with Confluent Control Center
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  As we announced in Introducing Confluent Platform 5.2, the latest release introduces many new features that enable you to build contextual event-driven applications. In particular, the management and monitoring capabilities […]
  
  https://www.confluent.io/blog/dawn-of-devops-managing-and-evolving-schemas-with-confluent-control-center
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  Kafka Summit New York 2019 Session Videos
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  It seems like there’s a Kafka Summit every other month. Of course there’s not—it’s every fourth month—but hey, close enough. We now have the Kafka Summit New York in the […]
  
  https://www.confluent.io/blog/kafka-summit-new-york-2019-session-videos
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  From Apache Kafka to Amazon S3: Exactly Once
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  At Confluent, we see many of our customers are on AWS, and we’ve noticed that Amazon S3 plays a particularly significant role in AWS-based architectures. Unless a use case actively […]
  
  https://www.confluent.io/blog/apache-kafka-to-amazon-s3-exactly-once
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  Monitoring Data Replication in Multi-Datacenter Apache Kafka Deployments
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  Enterprises run modern data systems and services across multiple cloud providers, private clouds and on-prem multi-datacenter deployments. Instead of having many point-to-point connections between sites, the Confluent Platform provides an […]
  
  https://www.confluent.io/blog/monitoring-data-replication-in-multi-datacenter-apache-kafka-deployments
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  Announcing Confluent Cloud for Apache Kafka as a Native Service on Google Cloud Platform
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  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 […]
  
  https://www.confluent.io/blog/announcing-confluent-cloud-for-apache-kafka-native-service-on-google-cloud-platform
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  Putting Events in Their Place with Dynamic Routing
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  Event-driven architecture means just that: It’s all about the events. In a microservices architecture, events drive microservice actions. No event, no shoes, no service. In the most basic scenario, microservices […]
  
  https://www.confluent.io/blog/putting-events-in-their-place-with-dynamic-routing
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  KSQL: What’s New in 5.2
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  KSQL enables you to write streaming applications expressed purely in SQL. There’s a ton of great new features in 5.2, many of which are a result of requests and support […]
  
  https://www.confluent.io/blog/ksql-whats-new-in-5-2
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  Introducing Confluent Platform 5.2
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  Includes free forever Confluent Platform on a single Apache Kafka® broker, improved Control Center functionality at scale and hybrid cloud streaming We are very excited to announce the general availability […]
  
  https://www.confluent.io/blog/introducing-confluent-platform-5-2