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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Joey Compeer

April 20, 2023

Release blog 2023.1 – the spring release

We are well into spring again and the flowers start popping up around us. What a wonderful moment to bring another platform release to the public. We are happy to announce Axual Platform 2023.1.

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Joey Compeer

April 13, 2023

Axual launches Axual Governance to help organizations turn Kafka into a competitive advantage

Axual Governance is now available - data governance & self-service for any Kafka.

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Richard Bosch

March 31, 2023

How are you managing Kafka? How the Axual ownership model makes your job easier

Apache Kafka has become the default solution when it comes to enabling event streaming. Operating an Apache Kafka deployment and managing connections and content can interrupt development processes and slow up time. In this blog we explain how the Axual approach to ownership helps to speed up the development of new topics and applications.

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Jurre Robertus

February 22, 2023

Why you should use Apache Kafka for industry 4.0

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. In this blog we explore how industry 4.0 can benefit from Apache Kafka®

Apache Kafka for Business

Joris Meijer

January 20, 2023

Release blog 2022.4 – the winter release

Enriched topic graph, stream insights, stream browse access control and more. Read more about all the exciting stuff that we've shipped in this release.

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Jurre Robertus

January 12, 2023

Why you need RBAC and ABAC to Scale Apache Kafka across your organization

Apache Kafka is the leading open source event streaming platform. This platform enables organizations to use real-time data instead of batch data. In this blog we explore how role-based access control and attribute-based access control enables the use of Kafka® enterprise wide.

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