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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Joris Meijer

July 20, 2020

Axual Release Update 2020.2

In the 2020.2 release we are adding support for Kafka Connect and we are open sourcing our Java and .NET client libraries.

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Joris Meijer

April 4, 2020

Axual Release Update 2020.1

Here it is, the latest version of Axual, the 2020.1 release. The new version introduces new features that allow you to speed up development, do testing and incident resolution with “Stream Browse & Search”, hook up external systems to Axual REST proxy and maintain schemas for your streams using Schema Upload.

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Rachel van Egmond

April 4, 2020

Real-Time Data Processing: Essential Insights You Need to Know

Data processing today is the most important asset of a business.To keep pace with modern technology, a business needs to keep up to date with data in real-time. Any business can use the updated data to collect information and sell their products if and only if, their data is recorded in real-time.

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Rachel van Egmond

January 23, 2020

What is Apache Kafka?

Apache Kafka: Have you ever been confused by all this talk about Kafka and streaming? Get the basics in this post full of information.

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Lee Sheinberg

Strimzi production ready?

Strimzi is widely used to run Apache Kafka on Kubernetes in production. This blog looks at why teams choose Strimzi, how it supports Kubernetes-native operations, where it scales, and what operational practices matter most. It also covers common challenges around upgrades, monitoring, node maintenance, and incident recovery.