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With recent Kafka versions the integration between Kafka Connect and Kafka Streams as well as KSQL has become much simpler and easier. […]</p>\\n"},{"id":799,"title":"Log Compaction | Highlights in the Apache Kafka and Stream Processing Community | April 2016","url":"https://www.confluent.io/blog/log-compaction-highlights-in-the-kafka-and-stream-processing-community-april-2016/","imageUrl":"https://www.confluent.io/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/102_log-compaction_1_revised-e1483639198129.png","datePublished":"April 1, 2016","authors":[{"id":9,"name":"Gwen Shapira","image":"https://www.confluent.io/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Gwen_ATO5C9719-762475-edited-1-150x150.jpg","slug":"gwen-shapira"}],"categories":[{"id":77,"name":"Log Compaction","slug":"log-compaction"}],"tags":[{"id":45,"name":"Kafka Streams","slug":"kafka-streams"},{"id":52,"name":"Kafka Training","slug":"kafka-training"}],"summary":"<p>The Apache Kafka community was crazy-busy last month. 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The Streams API, available as a Java library that is part of the official […]</p>\\n"},{"id":778,"title":"Log Compaction | Highlights in the Kafka and Stream Processing Community | March 2016","url":"https://www.confluent.io/blog/log-compaction-highlights-in-the-kafka-and-stream-processing-community-march-2016/","imageUrl":"https://www.confluent.io/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/102_log-compaction_1_revised-e1483639198129.png","datePublished":"March 1, 2016","authors":[{"id":9,"name":"Gwen Shapira","image":"https://www.confluent.io/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Gwen_ATO5C9719-762475-edited-1-150x150.jpg","slug":"gwen-shapira"}],"categories":[{"id":77,"name":"Log Compaction","slug":"log-compaction"}],"tags":[{"id":52,"name":"Kafka Training","slug":"kafka-training"}],"summary":"<p>It was another productive month in the Apache Kafka community. 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Got a newsworthy item? 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What we didn’t […]</p>\\n"},{"id":709,"title":"Log Compaction | Highlights in the Kafka and Stream Processing Community | January 2016","url":"https://www.confluent.io/blog/log-compaction-highlights-in-the-kafka-and-stream-processing-community-january-2016/","imageUrl":"https://www.confluent.io/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/102_log-compaction_1_revised-e1483639198129.png","datePublished":"January 1, 2016","authors":[{"id":9,"name":"Gwen Shapira","image":"https://www.confluent.io/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Gwen_ATO5C9719-762475-edited-1-150x150.jpg","slug":"gwen-shapira"}],"categories":[{"id":77,"name":"Log Compaction","slug":"log-compaction"}],"tags":[{"id":46,"name":"Kafka Connect","slug":"kafka-connect"},{"id":45,"name":"Kafka Streams","slug":"kafka-streams"}],"summary":"<p>Happy 2016! Wishing you a wonderful, highly scalable, and very reliable year. Log Compaction is a monthly digest of highlights in the Apache Kafka and stream processing community. Got a newsworthy item? Let us […]</p>\\n"},{"id":702,"title":"How to Build a Scalable ETL Pipeline with Kafka Connect","url":"https://www.confluent.io/blog/how-to-build-a-scalable-etl-pipeline-with-kafka-connect/","imageUrl":"https://www.confluent.io/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/131_Pipes_2.png","datePublished":"December 17, 2015","authors":[{"id":13,"name":"Liquan Pei","image":"https://www.confluent.io/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Liquan_ATO5C9833-186838-edited-150x150.jpg","slug":"liquan-pei"}],"categories":[{"id":76,"name":"Connecting to Apache Kafka","slug":"connecting-to-kafka"},{"id":1469,"name":"Pipelines","slug":"pipelines"}],"tags":[{"id":62,"name":"Data Pipeline","slug":"data-pipeline"},{"id":46,"name":"Kafka Connect","slug":"kafka-connect"},{"id":66,"name":"Real-Time Analytics","slug":"real-time-analytics"},{"id":54,"name":"Scalability","slug":"scalability"}],"summary":"<p>Apache Kafka is a high-throughput distributed message system that is being adopted by hundreds of companies to manage their real-time data. 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For organizations that want to build a streaming data pipeline around Apache Kafka, Confluent Platform is the […]</p>\\n"},{"id":694,"title":"Apache Kafka 0.9 is Released","url":"https://www.confluent.io/blog/apache-kafka-0-9-is-released/","imageUrl":"https://www.confluent.io/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/119_imageblog.png","datePublished":"November 24, 2015","authors":[{"id":3,"name":"Neha Narkhede","image":"https://www.confluent.io/wp-content/uploads/Neha_Narkhede-1-128x128.png","slug":"neha-narkhede"}],"categories":[{"id":125,"name":"Apache Kafka","slug":"apache-kafka"}],"tags":[{"id":72,"name":"Integration","slug":"integration"},{"id":71,"name":"Kafka Cluster","slug":"kafka-cluster"},{"id":46,"name":"Kafka Connect","slug":"kafka-connect"},{"id":53,"name":"Multi-Tenancy","slug":"multi-tenancy"},{"id":110,"name":"Release","slug":"release"},{"id":50,"name":"Security","slug":"security"},{"id":63,"name":"Stream Data","slug":"stream-data"}],"summary":"<p>I am pleased to announce the availability of the 0.9 release of Apache Kafka. This release has been in the works for several months with contributions from the community and […]</p>\\n"},{"id":691,"title":"Log Compaction | Highlights in the Kafka and Stream Processing Community | November 2015","url":"https://www.confluent.io/blog/log-compaction-highlights-in-the-kafka-and-stream-processing-community-november-2015/","imageUrl":"https://www.confluent.io/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/102_log-compaction_1_revised-e1483639198129.png","datePublished":"November 1, 2015","authors":[{"id":9,"name":"Gwen Shapira","image":"https://www.confluent.io/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Gwen_ATO5C9719-762475-edited-1-150x150.jpg","slug":"gwen-shapira"}],"categories":[{"id":77,"name":"Log Compaction","slug":"log-compaction"}],"tags":[{"id":72,"name":"Integration","slug":"integration"},{"id":45,"name":"Kafka Streams","slug":"kafka-streams"}],"summary":"<p>The Apache Kafka community just concluded its busiest month ever. 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Let’s take a look at the highlights: The […]</p>\\n"},{"id":670,"title":"Yes, Virginia, You Really Do Need a Schema Registry","url":"https://www.confluent.io/blog/schema-registry-kafka-stream-processing-yes-virginia-you-really-need-one/","imageUrl":"https://www.confluent.io/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/137_blogimage.png","datePublished":"September 24, 2015","authors":[{"id":9,"name":"Gwen Shapira","image":"https://www.confluent.io/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Gwen_ATO5C9719-762475-edited-1-150x150.jpg","slug":"gwen-shapira"}],"categories":[{"id":75,"name":"Confluent Platform","slug":"confluent-platform"},{"id":76,"name":"Connecting to Apache Kafka","slug":"connecting-to-kafka"}],"tags":[{"id":60,"name":"Application","slug":"application"},{"id":47,"name":"Connector","slug":"connector"},{"id":62,"name":"Data Pipeline","slug":"data-pipeline"},{"id":48,"name":"Schema Registry","slug":"schema-registry"},{"id":63,"name":"Stream Data","slug":"stream-data"}],"summary":"<p>I ran into the schema-management problem while working with my second Hadoop customer. 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