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This article shows how you can offload data from on-premises transactional (OLTP) databases to cloud-based datastores, including Snowflake and Amazon S3 with Athena. I’m also going to take the opportunity

On behalf of the Apache Kafka® community, it is my pleasure to announce the release of Apache Kafka 2.4.0. This release includes a number of key new features and improvements

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

Kafka Connect is the part of Apache Kafka® that provides reliable, scalable, distributed streaming integration between Apache Kafka and other systems. Kafka Connect has connectors for many, many systems, and

If you’ve worked with the Apache Kafka® and Confluent ecosystem before, chances are you’ve used a Kafka Connect connector to stream data into Kafka or stream data out of it.

Trains are an excellent source of streaming data—their movements around the network are an unbounded series of events. Using this data, Apache Kafka® and Confluent Platform can provide the foundations

The Internet of Things (IoT) is getting more and more traction as valuable use cases come to light. A key challenge, however, is integrating devices and machines to process the

In the early days, many companies simply used Apache Kafka® for data ingestion into Hadoop or another data lake. However, Apache Kafka is more than just messaging. The significant difference

There is a coming and a going / A parting and often no—meeting again. —Franz Kafka, 1897 Load balancing and scheduling are at the heart of every distributed system, and

When it comes to writing a connector, there are two things you need to know how to do: how to write the code itself, and helping the world know about