At this year’s Current, we introduced the public preview of our serverless Apache Flink® service, making it easier than ever to take advantage of stream processing without the complexities of infrastructure management. This first iteration of the service offers the Flink SQL API, which adheres to the ANSI standard and enables any user familiar with SQL to use Flink.
The Apache Flink PMC is pleased to announce the release of Apache Flink 1.18.0. As usual, we are looking at a packed release with a wide variety of improvements and new features. Overall, 174 people contributed to this release completing 18 FLIPS and 700+ issues. Thank you! Let's dive into the highlights.
It's not hard, it's just new. How can you, your business unit, and your enterprise utilize the exciting and emerging field of Generative AI to develop brand-new functionality? And once you’ve figured out your use cases, how do you successfully build in Generative AI? How do you scale it to production grade?
The Confluent Schema Registry plays a pivotal role in ensuring that producers and consumers in a streaming platform are able to communicate effectively. Ensuring the consistent use of schemas and their versions allows producers and consumers to easily interoperate, even when schemas evolve over time.
We are proud to announce the release of Apache Kafka® 3.6.0. This release contains many new features and improvements. This blog post will highlight some of the more prominent features. For a full list of changes, be sure to check the release notes.
Ever dealt with a misbehaving consumer group? Imbalanced broker load? This could be due to your consumer group and partitioning strategy! Once, on a dark and stormy night, I set myself up for this error. I was creating an application to demonstrate how you can use Apache Kafka® to decouple microservices. The function of my “microservices” was to create latte objects for a restaurant ordering service.
In the first three parts of our Inside Flink blog series, we discussed the benefits of stream processing, explored why developers are choosing Apache Flink® for a variety of stream processing use cases, and took a deep dive into Flink's SQL API. In this post, we'll focus on how we’ve re-architected Flink as a cloud-native service on Confluent Cloud. However, before we get into the specifics, there is exciting news to share.
The Q3 Confluent Cloud Launch comes to you from Current 2023, where data streaming industry experts have come together to share insights into the future of data streaming and new areas of innovation. This year, we’re introducing Confluent Cloud’s fully managed service for Apache Flink®, improvements to Kora Engine, how AI and streaming work together, and much more.
