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Whether you are a developer working on a cool new real-time application or an architect formulating the plan to reap the benefits of event streaming for the organisation, the subject

We’re happy to announce that Confluent Cloud, our fully managed event streaming service powered by Apache Kafka®, now supports AWS PrivateLink for secure network connectivity, in addition to the existing

Why data privacy for Apache Kafka®? As companies seek to leverage all forms of data for competitive advantage, there is a growing regulatory and reputational risk that calls for the

For many organizations, Apache Kafka® is the backbone and source of truth for data systems across the enterprise. Protecting your event streaming platform is critical for data security and often

Many companies have recently started to take cybersecurity and data protection even more seriously, particularly driven by the recent General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) legislation. They are increasing their investment

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

Compliance requirements often dictate that services should not store secrets as cleartext in files. These secrets may include passwords, such as the values for ssl.key.password, ssl.keystore.password, and ssl.truststore.password configuration parameters

Delivers the new Confluent Operator for cloud-native automation on Kubernetes, a redesigned Confluent Control Center user interface to simplify how you manage event streams, and a preview of Role-Based Access

During a recent talk titled Hunters ATT&CKing with the Right Data, which I presented with my brother Jose Luis Rodriguez at ATT&CKcon, we talked about the importance of documenting and

The principle of least privilege dictates that each user and application will have the minimal privileges required to do their job. When applied to Apache Kafka® and its Streams API,