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Release Blog 2026.1 - The Spring Release

The Axual 2026.1 release builds on the improvements in governance, observability, and self-service introduced in 2025.4, and takes things a step further. This release adds audit event coverage across platform resources, giving teams more visibility and control over what’s happening in the platform. We’ve also extended OAuth support to all data plane components, making security more consistent end to end. On top of that, updates to Connector management and the Overview Graph make the platform easier to use and give clearer insight into platform activity.

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MCP with Kafka

In this blog, we explore how the Model Context Protocol (MCP) enables AI applications to move beyond text generation and interact with systems like Kafka through structured actions. We will look at how natural language intent can be translated into real operations such as managing topics, schemas, and streaming applications, while also touching on governance, security, and the role of declarative approaches like KSML.

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Release Blog 2025.4 - The Winter Release

Axual 2025.4, the Winter Release, expands on the governance and self-service foundations of 2025.3 with improved KSML monitoring and state management, an enhanced Schema Catalog, and usability improvements across Self-Service and the platform.

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Rachel van Egmond
January 16, 2024
Unlocking Real-Time Potential: Event-Driven Programming with Apache Kafka
Unlocking Real-Time Potential: Event-Driven Programming with Apache Kafka

This blog delves into the synergy between event-driven programming and Apache Kafka, a powerful combination increasingly vital in our data-driven world. We explore how Kafka enhances event-driven programming, essential for real-time analytics and instant notifications.

Event Streaming
Rachel van Egmond
January 12, 2024
Apache Kafka: The centre of a Modern Data Integration Platform
Apache Kafka: The centre of a Modern Data Integration Platform

This blog explores Apache Kafka's pivotal role in data integration platforms, highlighting its impact on real-time processing, cloud-based solutions, and business intelligence. It discusses Kafka's versatility in data pipelines and integration, projecting its influence on the future of data integration technology.

Apache Kafka
Abhinav Sonkar
December 14, 2023
Implementing Outbox Pattern with Apache Kafka and Spring Modulith
Implementing Outbox Pattern with Apache Kafka and Spring Modulith

In this blog, we look at the problem of “dual-write” which is common in Event driven systems and how Spring Modulith can be used to implement the Outbox pattern in an easy way to solve the problem. We will also explain how Axual provides an out-of-the-box secure, production-ready Kafka cluster with built-in Governance to ensure that your organization’s journey into Event Driven architecture is safe and scalable.

Apache Kafka
Joey Compeer
November 28, 2023
Standardizing Kafka for the enterprise – requirements and organizational challenges (part 1)
Standardizing Kafka for the enterprise – requirements and organizational challenges (part 1)

Standardizing Apache Kafka for the enterprise can be challenging, but it is possible with a three-pillar approach: enablement, support, and technology.

Apache Kafka for Business
Joey Compeer
November 15, 2023
Topic graph for Apache Kafka – use cases to speed up time-to-market
Topic graph for Apache Kafka – use cases to speed up time-to-market

One of Axual's key features is the topic graph - a visual representation of how applications and topics are connected across teams and environments. In this blog post, I will explain how the topic graph helps your platform- and DevOps teams to speed up the development process and thus time-to-market.

Apache Kafka
Joris Meijer
October 18, 2023
Release blog 2023.3 – the autumn release
Release blog 2023.3 – the autumn release

In the autumn release of Axual Platform, most of the improvements have been done under the hood to be ready for the future of the platform. For Terraform Provider users we are now enabling the use of Avro schemas and data sources in their terraform declarations.

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