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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Jeroen van Disseldorp

August 23, 2021

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

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

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

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?

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 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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