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Data Streaming Awards 2024: Nominations Are Now Open

May 28, 2024 By Joe Shore In Confluent
The Data Streaming Awards is back for its third year! Designed to bring the data streaming community together, this one-of-a-kind industry award event recognizes organizations that are harnessing the power of this revolutionary technology to drive business and customer experience transformation. If you know a company (even your own team) that is using data streaming technology to transform their business and provide amazing value to their customers and communities, the time is now to submit a nomination.
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Best Practices for Confluent Terraform Provider

May 28, 2024 By Ramzi Soltani In Confluent
Managing Confluent Cloud infrastructure efficiently poses challenges due to the complexities involved in deploying and maintaining various components like environments, clusters, topics, and authorizations. Without proper tooling and practices, teams struggle with manual configuration errors, lack of consistency, and potential security risks. The Confluent Terraform.
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How to Set Up a Fully Managed Alerting Pipeline Using Confluent Cloud Audit Logs

May 23, 2024 By Confluent Cloud Metrics API In Confluent
In large organizations, Confluent Cloud is often simultaneously accessed by many different users along with business-critical applications, potentially across different lines of business. With so many individual pieces working together, the risk of an individual outage, error, or incident affecting other services increases. An incident could be constituted by a user clicking a wrong button, an application’s misconfiguration, or just a bug—you name it.
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Serverless Decoded: Reinventing Kafka Scaling with Elastic CKUs

May 22, 2024 By Julie Price In Confluent
Apache Kafka has become the de facto standard for data streaming, used by organizations everywhere to anchor event-driven architectures and power mission-critical real-time applications. However, this rise has also sparked discussions on improving Kafka operations and cost-efficiency—streaming data is naturally prone to bursts and often unpredictable, resulting in inevitable variations in workloads and demand on your Kafka cluster(s).
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Modernize Payments Architecture for ISO 20022 Compliance

May 22, 2024 By Chris Matta In Confluent
The payments industry is evolving rapidly, fueled by technological advancements, changing consumer behaviors, and a growing appetite for real-time transactions. As this transformation unfolds, new standards have been introduced to ensure the payments ecosystem's safety, security, and efficiency.
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Event-Driven Microservices in Banking and Fraud Detection | Designing Event-Driven Microservices

May 21, 2024 By Confluent In Confluent
How do we know whether Event-Driven Microservices are the right solution? This is the question that Tributary Bank faced when they looked at modernizing their old fraud-detection system. They were faced with many challenges, including scalability, reliability, and security. Some members of their team felt that switching to an event-driven microservice architecture would be the magic bullet that would solve all of their problems. But is there any such thing as a magic bullet? Let's take a look at the types of decisions Tributary Bank had to make as they started down this path.
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Introducing Confluent Cloud OpenSearch Sink Connector

May 21, 2024 By Amazon OpenSearch Serverless In Confluent
Amazon OpenSearch is a popular fully managed analytics engine that makes it easier for customers to do interactive log analytics, real-time application monitoring, and semantic and keyword searches. It can also be used as a vector engine that helps organizations build and augment GenAI applications without managing infrastructure (we’ll talk about this in future blogs). Additionally, the service provides a reliable, scalable infrastructure designed to handle massive data volumes.
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Contributing to Apache Kafka: How to Write a KIP

May 16, 2024 By Lucia Cerchie In Confluent
I’m brand new to writing KIPs (Kafka Improvement Proposals). I’ve written two so far, and my hands sweat every time I hit send on an email with ‘ KIP’ in the title. But I’ve also learned a lot from the process: about Apache Kafka internals, the process of writing KIPs, the Kafka community, and the most important motivation for developing software: our end users. What did I actually write? Let’s review KIP-941 and KIP-1020.
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Analyzing AWS Audit Logs in Real Time Using Confluent Cloud and Amazon EventBridge

May 14, 2024 By logging enabled In Confluent
Last year, we introduced the Connect with Confluent partner program, enabling our technology partners to develop native integrations with Confluent Cloud. This gives our customers access to Confluent data streams from within their favorite applications and allows them to extract maximum value from their data.
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