How we built the demo for the Current NOLA Day 2 keynote using Flink and AI
At Current 2025 in New Orleans this year we built a demo for the Day 2 keynote that would automagically summarise what was happening in the room, as …
Connecting Apache Flink SQL to Confluent Cloud Kafka broker
This is a quick blog post to remind me how to connect Apache Flink to a Kafka topic on Confluent Cloud. You may wonder why you’d want to do this, …
Confluent Cloud for Apache Flink - Exploring the API
Confluent Cloud for Apache Flink gives you access to run Flink workloads using a serverless platform on Confluent Cloud. After poking around the …
Creating an HTTP Source connector on Confluent Cloud from the CLI
In this blog article I’ll show you how you can use the confluent CLI to set up a Kafka cluster on Confluent Cloud, the necessary API keys, and then a …
A bash script to deploy ksqlDB queries automagically
There’s a bunch of improvements in the works for how ksqlDB handles code deployments and migrations. For now though, for deploying queries there’s …
Loading CSV data into Confluent Cloud using the FilePulse connector
The FilePulse connector from Florian Hussonnois is a really useful connector for Kafka Connect which enables you to ingest flat files including CSV, …
Connecting to managed ksqlDB in Confluent Cloud with REST and ksqlDB CLI
Using ksqlDB in Confluent Cloud makes things a whole bunch easier because now you just get to build apps and streaming pipelines, instead of having …
Running a self-managed Kafka Connect worker for Confluent Cloud
Confluent Cloud is not only a fully-managed Apache Kafka service, but also provides important additional pieces for building applications and …
Using Confluent Cloud when there is no Cloud (or internet)
☁️Confluent Cloud is a great solution for a hosted and managed Apache Kafka service, with the additional benefits of Confluent Platform such as …
Streaming Wi-Fi trace data from Raspberry Pi to Apache Kafka with Confluent Cloud
Wi-fi is now ubiquitous in most populated areas, and the way the devices communicate leaves a lot of 'digital exhaust'. Usually a computer …
Streaming data from SQL Server to Kafka to Snowflake ❄️ with Kafka Connect
Snowflake is the data warehouse built for the cloud, so let’s get all ☁️ cloudy and stream some data from Kafka running in Confluent Cloud to …
Running Dockerised Kafka Connect worker on GCP
I talk and write about Kafka and Confluent Platform a lot, and more and more of the demos that I’m building are around Confluent Cloud. This means …
Using Kafka Connect and Debezium with Confluent Cloud
This is based on using Confluent Cloud to provide your managed Kafka and Schema Registry. All that you run yourself is the Kafka Connect worker. …
Copying data between Kafka clusters with Kafkacat
kafkacat gives you Kafka super powers 😎 I’ve written before about kafkacat and what a great tool it is for doing lots of useful things as a developer …
Connecting KSQL to a Secured Schema Registry
See also : https://docs.confluent.io/current/ksql/docs/installation/server-config/security.html#configuring-ksql-for-secured-sr-long Confluent Cloud …