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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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Jeroen van Disseldorp
May 12, 2021
Introducing KSML: Kafka Streams for Low Code Environments
Introducing KSML: Kafka Streams for Low Code Environments

Kafka Streams has captured the hearts and minds of many developers that want to develop streaming applications on top of Kafka. But as powerful as the framework is, Kafka Streams has had a hard time getting around the requirement of writing Java code and setting up build pipelines.

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Jeroen van Disseldorp
April 25, 2021
How Does The Hybrid Cloud Architecture Work?
How Does The Hybrid Cloud Architecture Work?

The emergence of hybrid cloud is touted as the solution where companies can enjoy the benefits of both private and public cloud architecture.

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Rachel van Egmond
April 23, 2021
Strimzi Operator: Why does Axual use it and how can it help you
Strimzi Operator: Why does Axual use it and how can it help you

Strimzi Operators address the challenges of configuring and managing Kafka components on Kubernetes, which is a hurdle when running Kafka on Kubernetes. For Axual, Strimzi Operators provide a solution to these issues.

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Joris Meijer
April 1, 2021
Axual Release Update 2021.1
Axual Release Update 2021.1

Springtime is upon us, and with it comes new beginnings. We also have something fresh that we're excited to share with you. Our latest release, Axual 2021.1, is here, and it has some new features and improvements. So tune in with this blog and video to find out more.

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Jurre Robertus
November 2, 2020
How Kafka ensures scalability of IoT applications
How Kafka ensures scalability of IoT applications

Since the IoT buzzword was coined, it has gone beyond turning on lights and TVs from a remote location. IoT applications have expanded beyond consumer applications, and it’s being applied in retail, manufacturing, energy, and other industries.

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Jurre Robertus
October 19, 2020
Axual Release Update 2020.3
Axual Release Update 2020.3

We've entered the third quarter of the year and we are excited to announce Axual third update of the year, Release 2020.3.

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