Axual’s Autumn Release 2026.3 is here. You can now run multiple Kafka Connect clusters per instance for better isolation and no more noisy neighbors, and create Flink SQL applications to run stream processing jobs directly on the platform. This release also brings self-service service accounts, Strimzi v1 support in the Distributor, Terraform and MCP updates, and more.

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AI didn’t break software security. The volume of vulnerability reports did

Vulnerability reports are growing faster than security teams can process them. This article explores how AI can support vulnerability triage, why fixes take time to reach production and what the Trivy compromise taught us about software supply chain security.

How to configure Kafka Authentication in Strimzi

Learn how to configure secure Kafka authentication in Strimzi for multi-tenant environments. This technical guide covers mTLS, certificate-chain principals, tenant-specific listeners, custom principal builders, OAuth bearer authentication, and the risks of relying on Strimzi internals.

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Rachel van Egmond

January 16, 2024

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.

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Rachel van Egmond

January 12, 2024

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.

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Abhinav Sonkar

December 14, 2023

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.

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Joey Compeer

November 28, 2023

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

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.

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Joris Meijer

October 18, 2023

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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