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Release blog 2025.2 - The Summer Release

The Axual 2025.2 summer release delivers targeted improvements for enterprise-grade Kafka deployments. In this post, we walk through the latest updates—from enhanced audit tracking and OAuth support in the REST Proxy to smarter stream processing controls in KSML. These features are designed to solve the real-world governance, security, and operational challenges enterprises face when scaling Kafka across teams and systems.

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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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Jurre Robertus
February 22, 2023
Why you should use Apache Kafka for industry 4.0
Why you should use Apache Kafka for industry 4.0

Apache Kafka is the leading open source event streaming platform. This platform enables organizations to use real-time data instead of batch data. This new way of using data has a lot of use cases. In this blog we explore how industry 4.0 can benefit from Apache Kafka®

Apache Kafka for Business
Joris Meijer
January 20, 2023
Release blog 2022.4 – the winter release
Release blog 2022.4 – the winter release

Enriched topic graph, stream insights, stream browse access control and more. Read more about all the exciting stuff that we've shipped in this release.

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Jurre Robertus
January 12, 2023
Why you need RBAC and ABAC to Scale Apache Kafka across your organization
Why you need RBAC and ABAC to Scale Apache Kafka across your organization

Apache Kafka is the leading open source event streaming platform. This platform enables organizations to use real-time data instead of batch data. In this blog we explore how role-based access control and attribute-based access control enables the use of Kafka® enterprise wide.

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Jurre Robertus
November 23, 2022
Use cases for Apache Kafka: How can you add business value?
Use cases for Apache Kafka: How can you add business value?

Apache Kafka is the leading open source event streaming platform. This platform enables organizations to use real-time data instead of batch data. This new way of using data has a lot of use cases.

Apache Kafka Use Cases
Richard Bosch
October 25, 2022
Kafka Security – did you miss something?
Kafka Security – did you miss something?

Communication security, authentication, authorization and message security. There are a lot of security settings you need to configure when working with Apache Kafka. In this blog post, Richard explains the four key security subjects.

Kafka Security
Jurre Robertus
October 19, 2022
Terraform for Apache Kafka— How does it impact IT operations and lifecycle management.
Terraform for Apache Kafka— How does it impact IT operations and lifecycle management.

In this blog, we will discuss how Terraform impacts IT operations and lifecycle management for Apache Kafka.

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