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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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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.

Apache Kafka
Richard Bosch
October 12, 2022
Why open-source Kafka is not free
Why open-source Kafka is not free

In this post, Richard explains why open-source Apache Kafka is not free when you start using it as an enterprise solution.

Apache Kafka
Richard Bosch
August 8, 2022
Change Data Capture with PostgreSQL, Debezium and Axual
Change Data Capture with PostgreSQL, Debezium and Axual

Most companies rely heavily on the data stored in their databases. If data isn’t stored in the correct database then business processes can be corrupted and you might make decisions based on outdated or incorrect information. This makes the data and changes made to it an interesting source of events. But getting data from a database into a streaming platform has its challenges. This is part 2 of our blog series and continues to explain how to implement Change Data Capture with PostgreSQL, Debezium on the Axual platform.

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Joey Compeer
August 2, 2022
Axual a representative vendor in Gartner’s Hype Cycle for Open-Source Software 2022
Axual a representative vendor in Gartner’s Hype Cycle for Open-Source Software 2022

Axual, a leading provider of an enterprise event streaming platform based on Apache Kafka, is excited to be recognized as a representative vendor in Gartner’s latest Hype Cycle for Open-Source Software 2022.

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