The widespread adoption of Kafka and event streaming platforms is evident across several enterprises, where they serve as the backbone of critical operations, ranging from financial transactions to AI inference pipelines. However, in the domains of security and identity, most teams continue to face…
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Running Kong in front of your Solace Broker adds real benefits: Imagine an order service that accepts REST requests and publishes them as events. 1. API Consumer calls Kong with a standard POST request: 2. Kong Gateway applies authentication, validates the payload, adds a correlation ID, rate…
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When teams resort to VPC peering or PrivateLink to expose Kafka, they're not solving the problem — they're managing it, one network topology decision at a time. Every new external consumer adds complexity: a new peering connection, new firewall rules, new IP space to coordinate, new potential for…
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The challenges of an acquisition frequently appear in a number of critical areas, especially when dealing with a platform as important as Kafka: Many organizations consider maintaining direct integration with their Kafka provider. However, compared to a direct coupling approach, an abstraction…
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Apache Kafka is a distributed, fault-tolerant, high-throughput event-streaming platform. LinkedIn originally developed it to handle massive data pipelines. The Apache Software Foundation now maintains this open-source project. Kafka implements a distributed commit log at its core. Think of an…
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If you're building distributed applications or working in cloud native development, you know that robust connectivity and API governance are the foundations for speed and scale. However, this also holds true in the realm of event streaming. Many top companies now depend on Apache Kafka and…
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We’re excited to bring you Kong Gateway Enterprise 3.11 with compelling new features to make your APIs and event streams even more powerful, including: We’ll also touch on what’s new with Konnect networking and Active Tracing. There’s a lot to unpack, so keep on reading for the full story!…
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Kafka delivers massive value for real-time businesses — but that value comes at a cost. As usage grows, so does complexity: more clusters, more topics, more partitions, more ACLs, more custom tooling. But it doesn’t have to be that way. If your team is managing Kafka at scale, here are five…
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Managing Kafka as an island on its own got you this far. But scaling it securely and efficiently across your organization? That's another matter entirely. Apache Kafka is the number-one event streaming platform used by developers and data engineers worldwide to build reliable, scalable real-time…
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Kong customers include some of the most forward-thinking, tech-savvy organizations in the world. And while we’re proud to help them innovate through traditional APIs, the reality is that their ambitions don’t stop there. Increasingly, our customers are investing heavily in real-time data and event…
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For the past several years, there have been murmurs of an incoming convergence between API management and event management. This has been more than a vendor-led phenomenon; industry analysts — such as Gartner and Forrester — see the worlds colliding as well, which is why Gartner mentions event…
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We announced the Kong Premium Technology Partner Program at API Summit 2024, and Confluent was one of the first in the program. This initial development was all about ensuring that the relationship between Kong and Confluent — from a business and product perspective — fully represented our joint…
[](/blog/engineering/kafka-event-streaming-confluent-cloud)Event streaming allows companies to build more scalable and loosely coupled real-time applications supporting massive concurrency demands and simplifying the construction of services. Ultimately, we may need to grant access to such infrastructure to the most diverse entities, including external…
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