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One of the most highly requested enhancements to ksqlDB is here! Apache Kafka® messages may contain data in message keys as well as message values. Until now, ksqlDB could only

We’re pleased to announce ksqlDB 0.15, our first release of 2021! This version adds rich support for message key columns and long-awaited improvement to interactive development with the command line

We are pleased to announce the release of Confluent Platform 6.1. With this release, we are further simplifying management tasks for Apache Kafka® operators and providing even higher availability for

What happens when you let engineers go wild building an application to track the score of a table football game? This blog post shares SPOUD’s story of engineering a simple

Apache Kafka® is at the core of a large ecosystem that includes powerful components, such as Kafka Connect and Kafka Streams. This ecosystem also includes many tools and utilities that

We’re pleased to announce ksqlDB 0.14, one of our most significant releases of the year. This version includes expanded query support over materialized views, incremental schema alteration, variable substitution, additional

Building event streaming applications has never been simpler with ksqlDB. But what is it? ksqlDB is an event streaming database for building stream processing applications. Unlike Kafka Streams, ksqlDB programs

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

Building data pipelines isn’t always straightforward. The gap between the shiny “hello world” examples of demos and the gritty reality of messy data and imperfect formats is sometimes all too

Software engineering memes are in vogue, and nothing is more fashionable than joking about how complicated distributed systems can be. Despite the ribbing, many people adopt them. Why? Distributed systems