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Release blog 2025.1 - The Spring Release

Axual 2025.1 is here with exciting new features and updates. Whether you're strengthening security, improving observability, or bridging old legacy systems with modern event systems, like Kafka, Axual 2025.1 is built to keep you, your fellow developers, and engineers ahead of the game.

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Kafka Consumer Groups and Offsets: What You Need to Know

Consumer group offsets are essential components in Apache Kafka, a leading platform for handling real-time event streaming. By allowing organizations to scale efficiently, manage data consumption, and track progress in data processing, Kafka’s consumer groups and offsets ensure reliability and performance. In this blog post, we'll dive deep into these concepts, explain how consumer groups and offsets work, and answer key questions about their functionality. We'll also explore several practical use cases that show how Kafka’s consumer groups and offsets drive real business value, from real-time analytics to machine learning pipelines.

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Starting Small with Kafka: Why It’s the Right Choice for Your Enterprise

Apache Kafka is a powerful event-streaming platform, but does your enterprise need to go all in from day one? In this blog, we explore why starting small with Kafka is the best strategy. Learn how an incremental approach can help you reduce complexity, and scale efficiently as your needs grow. Whether you're new to Kafka or looking for a practical implementation strategy, this guide will set you on the right path.

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Joey Compeer
November 15, 2023
Topic graph for Apache Kafka – use cases to speed up time-to-market
Topic graph for Apache Kafka – use cases to speed up time-to-market

One of Axual's key features is the topic graph - a visual representation of how applications and topics are connected across teams and environments. In this blog post, I will explain how the topic graph helps your platform- and DevOps teams to speed up the development process and thus time-to-market.

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Joris Meijer
October 18, 2023
Release blog 2023.3 – the autumn release
Release blog 2023.3 – the autumn release

In the autumn release of Axual Platform, most of the improvements have been done under the hood to be ready for the future of the platform. For Terraform Provider users we are now enabling the use of Avro schemas and data sources in their terraform declarations.

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Rachel van Egmond
September 13, 2023
How event-driven architecture and the internet of things are transforming the energy market
How event-driven architecture and the internet of things are transforming the energy market

Event-driven architecture and the internet of things; over the last couple of years these things have enabled new ways of improving the energy sector. In this blog you will read how this facilitates operational efficiency.

Event Streaming
Joris Meijer
September 6, 2023
Update on support of Axual client libraries
Update on support of Axual client libraries

Back in 2016 Apache Kafka adoption was starting to pick up worldwide. More and more applications were starting to reap the benefits of real-time data streaming. Configuration and setup of client applications (consumer/producer) was quite complex, certainly when you are new to Apache Kafka and its intricate configuration options.

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Joey Compeer
August 7, 2023
Join Axual at the Gartner Application Innovation & Business Solutions Summit in London Sep 13 – 14!
Join Axual at the Gartner Application Innovation & Business Solutions Summit in London Sep 13 – 14!

We’re excited to announce that Axual will be an exhibitor at this year’s Gartner Application Innovation & Business Solutions Summit in London from Sep 13 - 14! The event takes place in InterContinental London – The O2.

Apache Kafka for Business
Joris Meijer
July 19, 2023
Release blog 2023.2 – the summer release
Release blog 2023.2 – the summer release

Another quarter, another fresh Axual Platform release. AsyncAPI, Terraform Provider update and, last but not least, connector logging are the highlights of the 2023.2 release of Axual Platform. Keep reading to find out how those features enable you to manage your Apache Kafka and Kafka Connect cluster(s) effectively.

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