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Stream processing applications, including streaming ETL pipelines, materialized caches, and event-driven microservices, are made easy with ksqlDB. Until recently, your options for interacting with ksqlDB were limited to its command-line

When operating cloud infrastructure, “time is money” is more than a cliché—it is interpreted literally as every processing second stacks up on the monthly bill. ksqlDB strives to reduce these

In the article Should You Put Several Event Types in the Same Kafka Topic?, Martin Kleppmann discusses when to combine several event types in the same topic and introduces new

Confluent Cloud supports Schema Registry as a fully managed service that allows you to easily manage schemas used across topics, with Apache Kafka® as a central nervous system that connects

Mainframes are still ubiquitous, used for almost every financial transaction around the world—credit card transactions, billing, payroll, etc. You might think that working on mainframe software would be dull, requiring

When Confluent Schema Registry was first introduced, Apache Avro™ was initially chosen as the default format. While Avro has worked well for many users, over the years, we’ve received many

We are pleased to announce the release of Confluent Platform 5.5. With this release, Confluent makes event streaming more broadly accessible to developers of all backgrounds, enhancing three categories of

As enterprises move more and more of their applications to the cloud, they are also moving their on-prem ETL pipelines to the cloud, as well as building new ones. There

I am pleased to announce the release of Confluent Platform 5.4. Like any new release of Confluent Platform, it’s packed with features. To make them easier to digest, I want

Although starting out with one Confluent Schema Registry deployment per development environment is straightforward, over time, a company may scale and begin migrating data to a cloud environment (such as