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We are very excited to announce the Confluent Platform May 2018 Preview release! The May Preview introduces powerful new capabilities for KSQL and the Schema Registry UI. Read on to

This is a guest blog from Alexandra Wang, Software Engineer, Pandora Media. You can connect with her on LinkedIn. Also special thanks to Lawrence Weikum and Stu Thompson as contributors of the work in this post.

Note: The blog post Ensure Data Quality and Data Evolvability with a Secured Schema Registry contains more recent information. If you use Apache Kafka to integrate and decouple different data

I ran into the schema-management problem while working with my second Hadoop customer. Until then, there was one true database and the database was responsible for managing schemas and pretty

The rise in schema-free and document-oriented databases has led some to question the value and necessity of schemas. Schemas, in particular those following the relational model, can seem too restrictive,

I was at ApacheCon 2015 in Austin, Texas a couple of weeks ago. The following is a short summary of some of the trends that I observed at the conference.

Summary: Confluent is starting to explore the integration of databases with event streams. As part of the first step in this exploration, Martin Kleppmann has made a new open source

As part of Confluent Platform 1.0 released about a month ago, we included a new Kafka REST Proxy to allow more flexibility for developers and to significantly broaden the number