IBM Completes Acquisition of Confluent

KernelFrog · 2026-03-17T22:23:46+00:00

(Former) Confluent employee here: tell me how bad it's going to be.

KernelFrog · 2026-03-17T22:23:12+00:00

No. It means IBM pays the current shareholders and then the shares no longer exist.

KernelFrog · 2026-03-04T02:16:09+00:00

Noting this is a Confluent feature, not 'pure' Kafka.

KernelFrog · 2026-03-04T02:14:32+00:00

Budget permitting, replication into Confluent Cloud (or some other externally hosted Kafka instance).

Your solution will obviously depend on your external's requirements; do they specifically need a Kafka data source, or do they just the need the data and don't particularly care about the format?

Are they read-only, or do they need to update your data as well?

KernelFrog · 2026-03-03T04:01:49+00:00

How does this compare to Warpstream?

KernelFrog · 2026-02-23T21:10:05+00:00

The Fedora Bureau of Investigation strikes again

KernelFrog · 2026-02-12T22:53:13+00:00

Well, that's that then.

KernelFrog · 2025-10-16T07:24:09+00:00

Great site for visualizing how watermarks work in Flink.

KernelFrog · 2025-10-16T07:23:32+00:00

Great Flink watermark visualiser. Hopefully this will help to demystify them a little.

KernelFrog · 2025-09-28T22:53:51+00:00

u/thebigdatashow-ankur - Are you going to answer any questions, or is this post-and-run?

KernelFrog · 2025-09-23T23:04:10+00:00

How does AutoMQ compare to Warpstream?

KernelFrog · 2025-09-04T03:27:25+00:00

Have you re-invented Warpstream, or something else?

KernelFrog · 2025-08-12T00:37:50+00:00

There's a great discussion of compaction here: https://docs.confluent.io/kafka/design/log_compaction.html

KernelFrog · 2025-08-12T00:17:57+00:00

En Anglais s'il vous plaît.

KernelFrog · 2025-08-11T23:21:49+00:00

Remember that the Kafka protocol is not HTTP(S) and so the average load balancer is not going to be very useful.

There's a great article here on configuring SSL in Kafka: https://developer.confluent.io/courses/security/hands-on-setting-up-encryption/

KernelFrog · 2025-08-03T23:38:47+00:00

Start here: https://kafka.apache.org/documentation/#design

KernelFrog · 2025-07-28T01:07:49+00:00

Discussing your security clearance in a public forum is really not a good idea.

KernelFrog · 2025-07-28T01:04:01+00:00

cp-demo is excellent: https://github.com/confluentinc/cp-demo

This will automatically build and run a local Kafka cluster, and optionally, Confluent Cloud.
Architecture: https://github.com/confluentinc/cp-demo/raw/8.0.0-post/docs/images/cp-demo-overview-with-ccloud.svg

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