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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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Rachel van Egmond
August 9, 2024
Transforming Healthcare IT: Apache Kafka for Legacy Modernization
Transforming Healthcare IT: Apache Kafka for Legacy Modernization

Apache Kafka powers real-time data streaming and modernizes legacy healthcare systems. It enables seamless integration across platforms, improving efficiency and patient care by supporting standards like HL7, FHIR, and JSON. Kafka bridges old and new, enhancing data-driven healthcare.

Apache Kafka for Business
Rachel van Egmond
August 9, 2024
Kafka Platform for Banking
Kafka Platform for Banking

Kafka platform for banking enables real-time data integration, fraud detection, automated customer communication, and streamlined risk models, transforming the financial sector with scalable and reliable data management.

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Rachel van Egmond
August 6, 2024
Kafka platform for energy
Kafka platform for energy

Kafka empowers energy providers to analyze real-time data from smart meters and IoT devices, enabling them to dynamically adjust the supply and encourage consumers to reduce consumption during peak times.

Apache Kafka for Business
Rachel van Egmond
August 1, 2024
Real-time data is revolutionizing energy solutions
Real-time data is revolutionizing energy solutions

Real-time data is at the core of this blog's exploration into Axual's platform and its transformative impact on a leading producer and supplier of natural gas, electricity, and heat in the Netherlands. Serving over 2 million business and residential customers, the company benefits significantly from dynamic pricing and telemetry collection. This discussion will highlight how real-time data processing revolutionizes the company's operations and aligns seamlessly with its business objectives.

Real Time Data Processing
Rachel van Egmond
July 26, 2024
Energy Trading – checklist for Kafka implementation and process optimization
Energy Trading – checklist for Kafka implementation and process optimization

Implementing Apache Kafka in your energy trading system can feel overwhelming, with technical complexities, internal stakeholders, and extensive research to navigate. However, this climb can improve efficiency and innovation in your trading operations, offering new vistas of opportunity.

Apache Kafka for Business
Rachel van Egmond
July 26, 2024
TenneT Kafka for grid monitoring | use case
TenneT Kafka for grid monitoring | use case

TenneT, a leading European electricity Transmission System Operator, uses Axual's Kafka platform for real-time data streaming. This helps them monitor the grid better and make fast decisions. Axual's platform makes it easier for TenneT to handle large amounts of data, improve their technology, and work more efficiently.

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