Introducing Self-Service Apache Kafka for Developers

This post announces the public availability of self-service Confluent Cloud and its expansion to Google Cloud Platform. It details the developer challenge of operating Kafka infrastructure and introduces Confluent Cloud as a fully managed, low-cost, self-service, Kafka-based event streaming platform. Key features include self-service provisioning, elastic scaling, world-wide availability, compatibility with open-source Kafka APIs, consumption-based pricing, and cloud independence. The post illustrates how developers can leverage Confluent Cloud on GCP with services like BigQuery and TensorFlow, and describes how Confluent Replicator can keep GCP clusters in sync with other cloud providers.