Streaming Heterogeneous Databases with Kafka Connect – The Easy Way

This blog post discusses the integration of databases that span across both on-premises and cloud deployments using Kafka Connect and Confluent Cloud. It highlights how this approach provides a more seamless way to build a flexible, future-proof multi-cloud architecture with a single source of truth for data. The post also demonstrates an automatable workflow to integrate a cloud database and on-prem database into an ETL pipeline using Kafka Connect API. Additionally, it introduces the general availability of Confluent Platform 7.7 and its latest key features such as enhanced security with OAuth support, Confluent Platform for Apache Flink® (LA), a new Connector, and more.