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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
October 14, 2020
Technology trends of the future: Real-Time Data Streaming is the way to go
Technology trends of the future: Real-Time Data Streaming is the way to go

2020 was the year of reshaping the way we think about big data, as we experienced how important it is to combine Artificial Intelligence (AI) in analyzing massive amounts of data to make decisions. Real-time data streaming is the way to go forward. While software developers are excited about new technologies to deliver information, real-time […]

Real Time Data Processing
Joris Meijer
August 28, 2020
Harnessing Real-Time Data: Apache Kafka Use Cases
Harnessing Real-Time Data: Apache Kafka Use Cases

Discover how Apache Kafka powers digital transformation in various industries, from banking to energy. Learn its role in real-time fraud detection, risk management, predictive analytics, and customer satisfaction.

Apache Kafka Use Cases
Joris Meijer
July 29, 2020
The Importance of Monitoring Kafka Performance
The Importance of Monitoring Kafka Performance

Apache Kafka has become the preferred infrastructure in managing the increasing volume of data flow and processing needed by modern businesses. Kafka’s reliability, speed, and scalability resulted in early adopters like Netflix while capturing the attention of small to medium firms. As the use of the platform grows, it becomes increasingly important to make sure the platform delivers to the requirements of all connected clients.

Apache Kafka
Joris Meijer
July 20, 2020
Axual Release Update 2020.2
Axual Release Update 2020.2

In the 2020.2 release we are adding support for Kafka Connect and we are open sourcing our Java and .NET client libraries.

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Joris Meijer
April 4, 2020
Axual Release Update 2020.1
Axual Release Update 2020.1

Here it is, the latest version of Axual, the 2020.1 release. The new version introduces new features that allow you to speed up development, do testing and incident resolution with “Stream Browse & Search”, hook up external systems to Axual REST proxy and maintain schemas for your streams using Schema Upload.

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Rachel van Egmond
April 4, 2020
Real-Time Data Processing: Essential Insights You Need to Know
Real-Time Data Processing: Essential Insights You Need to Know

Data processing today is the most important asset of a business.To keep pace with modern technology, a business needs to keep up to date with data in real-time. Any business can use the updated data to collect information and sell their products if and only if, their data is recorded in real-time.

Real Time Data Processing
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