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Release Blog 2026.2 - The Summer Release

Axual 2026.2, the Summer LTS release, brings continuous message fetching and CEL-based queries to Topic Browse, Externalised Groups for managing membership through your Identity Provider, the move to Apicurio v3, improved Audit Events, KSML 1.3, and new MCP Server capabilities.

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Strimzi 1.0.0: CRD Versioning, Conversion, and GitOps Operations

A technical overview of the Strimzi 1.0.0 CRD migration path, including CRD versioning, conversion tooling, storage updates, and operational considerations for ArgoCD-managed GitOps Kubernetes environments.

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7 Reasons Europe Doesn’t Trust AWS’s “Sovereign” Cloud

This blog explores why many European organizations and policymakers remain skeptical of AWS’s “sovereign” cloud initiative. From concerns around US jurisdiction and the CLOUD Act to questions about operational independence, data governance, and true digital sovereignty, we break down the key reasons behind Europe’s hesitation. The article also examines the broader push for European cloud alternatives and what this means for enterprises navigating compliance, security, and infrastructure strategy.

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Jurre Robertus
February 22, 2023
Why you should use Apache Kafka for industry 4.0
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
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
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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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.

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