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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
May 16, 2024
Migrate Data from Legacy Systems: Apache Integration
Migrate Data from Legacy Systems: Apache Integration

Explore the challenges of legacy systems in banking and insurance and how Apache Kafka can drive modernization. This blog details migration strategies, integration techniques, and the pivotal role of CDC in ensuring seamless data transitions and operational continuity.

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Jeroen van Disseldorp
April 8, 2024
Release blog 2024.1 – the Spring release
Release blog 2024.1 – the Spring release

Explore Axual's Spring 2024.1 release, featuring a unified platform architecture that merges Axual Platform and Governance, simplifying installations and upgrades. New features include a Cloud health monitor for enhanced transparency and numerous improvements across security, governance, and support to ensure a seamless user experience.

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Rachel van Egmond
April 2, 2024
Axual achieves Red Hat OpenShift certification: empowering enterprises with certified event streaming
Axual achieves Red Hat OpenShift certification: empowering enterprises with certified event streaming

Axual announces certification for its event streaming solution on Red Hat OpenShift, the industry’s leading enterprise Kubernetes platform.

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Rachel van Egmond
March 22, 2024
SCADA Systems, Smart Grids, and Apache Kafka are The Future of Energy
SCADA Systems, Smart Grids, and Apache Kafka are The Future of Energy

We're at the start of an energy revolution, where managing data is key. With SCADA systems overwhelmed by data, Apache Kafka offers a modern solution for a smart, prosumer-driven grid.

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Joey Compeer
March 14, 2024
Axual and Digital4Grids announce partnership to launch “Kafka4Power” platform
Axual and Digital4Grids announce partnership to launch “Kafka4Power” platform

Axual and Digital4Grids announce partnership to launch “Kafka4Power” platform. This collaboration aims to address the challenges faced by the energy sector, particularly Transmission System Operators (TSOs) and Distribution System Operators (DSOs), by leveraging Axual’s platform capabilities and Schmitt’s deep industry insights.

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Jeroen van Disseldorp
March 12, 2024
KSML v0.8: new features for Kafka Streams in Low Code environments
KSML v0.8: new features for Kafka Streams in Low Code environments

KSML is a wrapper language for Kafka Streams. It allows for easy specification and running of Kafka Streams applications, without requiring Java programming. It was first released in 2021 and is available as open source under the Apache License v2 on Github. Recently version 0.8.0 was released, which brings a number of interesting improvements. In […]

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