The Challenges in Productionising MCP Servers
In 2025, Model Context Protocol (MCP) captured the imagination of the AI engineering community. 2026 will be the year that everyone realises their prototypes need to run in production.
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UK bosses can't make decisions without AI
New Confluent research reveals that millions of UK bosses have handed off key decision-making responsibilities to AI.
Queues for Apache Kafka Is Here: Your Guide to Getting Started in Confluent
Queues for Kafka is now in General Availability (GA) on Confluent Cloud and is coming soon to Confluent Platform, coinciding with the Apache Kafka 4.2 release. This milestone brings production-ready queue semantics and elastic consumer scaling natively to Kafka through KIP-932, enabling organizations to consolidate their messaging infrastructures while gaining elastic consumer scaling and per-message processing controls. Get started.
Simplified Kafka Cluster Migration: Strimzi to AWS Express Brokers with Lenses
Migrating Kafka clusters doesn't have to be a complex or high-risk operation. In this technical walkthrough, we demonstrate how Lenses K2K managed through Lenses 6 simplifies the migration of mission-critical banking applications from Strimzi to AWS Express Brokers with minimal downtime and zero data loss.
Confluent Intelligence expands real-time business data to enterprise AI
Support for the Agent2Agent protocol helps connect AI agents anywhere in real time so they can collaborate at enterprise scale. Multivariate Anomaly Detection takes anomaly detection to the next level, stopping problems before they start.
Inside @WhatIfMediaGroup's Massive #Kafka Migration to #Kubernetes | Interview with Ryan Anguiano
In this episode, Drew Oetzel sits down with Ryan Anguiano, Staff Architect at @WhatIfMediaGroup to discuss their massive migration of from legacy EC2 instances to using the @Strimzi operator. Ryan shares deep technical insights into how they optimized their data streaming architecture, including their use of EKS, EBS storage striping, and why the 12-Factor App methodology was the key to migrating over 100 services in just a few months.
Why Event-Driven Microservices Teams Move Faster
Escaping the monolith didn’t just simplify architecture—it unlocked speed, flexibility, and hiring freedom for Busie.
Why We Don't Manage Kafka
Managing Kafka wasn’t the business—delivering customer value was.
REST APIs Were Breaking Our System
Tightly coupled request-response create cascading failures. Brady at Busie, explains why moving to an event-driven architecture was the only way to guarantee an “always-us” system for mission-critical operations.
Demo Kafka Gateway Platform with Confluent Cloud Gateway
Learn how to spin up a gateway and trigger a failover (and a failback) when your Confluent Cloud clusters fail—without needing to restart your Apache Kafka clients. NOTE: This demo is a proof of concept and is not production-ready. Use at your own risk. –