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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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Jeroen van Disseldorp
August 23, 2021
Apache Kafka drives Rabobank Real-Time Financial Alerts
Apache Kafka drives Rabobank Real-Time Financial Alerts

Rabobank used Kafka Streams APIs to do real-time alerting on financial events for their customers. Learn more about the use case in this blog.

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Joris Meijer
July 29, 2021
Axual Release Update 2021.2
Axual Release Update 2021.2

The summer release 2021.2 is here, it contains many quality and stability improvements and some interesting new features. Read the release blog to find out more.

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Jeroen van Disseldorp
May 17, 2021
How to overcome the steep learning curve of Apache Kafka
How to overcome the steep learning curve of Apache Kafka

If you’re in the IT industry, you can’t help but catch the term ‘Apache Kafka’ uttered here and there. It’s an unmistakable sign that Apache Kafka is being adopted as the preferred data streaming platform by many organizations. The rising popularity of Kafka also creates a demand for developers proficient in the technology. It’s only […]

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Jeroen van Disseldorp
May 12, 2021
Introducing KSML: Kafka Streams for Low Code Environments
Introducing KSML: Kafka Streams for Low Code Environments

Kafka Streams has captured the hearts and minds of many developers that want to develop streaming applications on top of Kafka. But as powerful as the framework is, Kafka Streams has had a hard time getting around the requirement of writing Java code and setting up build pipelines.

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Jeroen van Disseldorp
April 25, 2021
How Does The Hybrid Cloud Architecture Work?
How Does The Hybrid Cloud Architecture Work?

The emergence of hybrid cloud is touted as the solution where companies can enjoy the benefits of both private and public cloud architecture.

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Rachel van Egmond
April 23, 2021
Strimzi Operator: Why does Axual use it and how can it help you
Strimzi Operator: Why does Axual use it and how can it help you

Strimzi Operators address the challenges of configuring and managing Kafka components on Kubernetes, which is a hurdle when running Kafka on Kubernetes. For Axual, Strimzi Operators provide a solution to these issues.

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