Announcing Aiven for Apache Kafka cluster configuration backup
Cluster configuration backups are available on Aiven for Apache Kafka! Find out how it can save time for your team while restoring your cluster configuration.
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Index data into Elastic Cloud from Confluent Cloud
This short video tutorial guides you step-by-step into configuring the Elasticsearch Sink Connector to ingest in Elastic Cloud every kind of event from a Kafka topic hosted in Confluent Cloud.
Introducing Kafka Quotas in Aiven for Apache Kafka
Aiven for Apache Kafka® brings Kafka quotas to help organizations control the resources client applications can use in a Kafka cluster.
Brolly uses Aiven for Apache Kafka to make sense of its customer's social data
Social media archiving & insights platform, Brolly, needed a robust and compliant way to capture and store its massive volumes of customer data.
Protecting Data-Driven Revenues at Schibsted
Aiven helps Schibsted Media Group maintain a stable Apache Kafka® cluster essential to making timely data-driven business decisions and creating business value out of data.
Complete Guide to tracing Kafka clients with OpenTelemetry in Go
OpenTelemetry can be used to trace Go applications that use Kafka to find performance issues and bugs. OpenTelemetry is an open-source project under the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) that aims to standardize the generation and collection of telemetry data. Telemetry data includes logs, metrics, and traces. Apache Kafka introduced the ability to add headers to Kafka messages from version 0.11 onwards.
Webinar | What's new with Aiven platform
This is your chance to hear directly from Jonah Kowall, the VP of Product Management at Aiven, as he takes you on a journey through our dynamic platform and highlights the latest advancements we've made in the past six months. Not only will you get an exclusive look at all the exciting new features, but you'll also discover the contributions Aiven has made to open source communities like Kafka, OpenSearch, and PostgreSQL.
Cluster Interview: Serving relevant recommendations on the go with Aiven for Apache Kafka
We want to highlight the startups participating in the Cluster Startup Program and building on top of Aiven services. Today, we’re excited to introduce 4.Screen.
How to monitor Kafka and Confluent Cloud with Elastic Observability
The blog will take you through best practices to observe Kafka-based solutions implemented on Confluent Cloud with Elastic Observability. (To monitor Kafka brokers that are not in Confluent Cloud, I recommend checking out this blog.) We will instrument Kafka applications with Elastic APM, use the Confluent Cloud metrics endpoint to get data about brokers, and pull it all together with a unified Kafka and Confluent Cloud monitoring dashboard in Elastic Observability.
Streaming conversion of Apache Kafka topics from JSON to Avro with Apache Flink
Pushing data in JSON format to an Apache Kafka topic is very common. However, dealing with messages not having a predefined structure can create some problems, specifically when trying to sink the data via connectors, like the JDBC sink, which require the knowledge of the message structure. Transforming the messages from JSON to AVRO can enforce a schema on messages and allow the usage of a bigger variety of connectors.