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2017 was an amazing year for Apache Kafka® as an open source project and for Confluent as a company. I wanted to take moment to thank all the contributors and

A question people often ask about Apache Kafka® is whether it is okay to use it for longer term storage. Kafka, as you might know, stores a log of records,

I have some exciting news to share: we’ve completed a $50 million investment led by our newest partner, Sequoia Capital and Matt Miller of Sequoia will be joining our board

If you are using Apache Kafka from a language other than Java one of the first questions you probably have is something like, “Why are there two (or five!) clients

Most people think that what’s exciting about distributed systems is the ability to support really big applications. When you read a blog about a new distributed database, it usually talks

I’m really excited to announce a major new feature in Apache Kafka v0.10: Kafka’s Streams API. The Streams API, available as a Java library that is part of the official

It is my pleasure to announce that Confluent has raised a Series B funding of $24M, led by Index Ventures and joined by our Series A investor, Benchmark. Mike Volpi

Testing is one of the hardest parts of building reliable distributed systems. Kafka has long had a set of system tests that cover distributed operation but this is an area

If you are getting started with Kafka one thing you’ll need to do is pick a data format. The most important thing to do is be consistent across your usage.

This is the second part of our guide on streaming data and Apache Kafka. In part one I talked about the uses for real-time data streams and explained the concept of