Confluent release adds enterprise, developer, IoT savvy to Apache Kafka | ZDNet
Confluent, the company founded by the creators of streaming data platform Apache Kafka, is announcing a new release today. Confluent Platform 5.0, based on yesterday’s release of open source Kafka 2.0, adds enterprise security, new disaster recovery capabilities, lots of developer features, and important IoT support.
Apache Kafka, the open source streaming data platform, has gained immense momentum over the past few years, both in terms of its core technology and as an API standard for proprietary streaming data solutions. Yesterday saw the release of version 2.0.0 of this streaming data juggernaut and today Confluent, the company founded by Kafka’s creators, is releasing its enterprise distribution of that release, in the form of Confluent Platform 5.0.