Confluent Releases Managed V2 Connector for Apache Kafka® for Azure Cosmos DB

The General Availability (GA) of the Confluent fully managed V2 connector for Apache Kafka on Azure Cosmos DB has been announced, marking a significant milestone in simplifying real-time data streaming from and to Azure Cosmos DB using Apache Kafka. The new connector, available directly from the Confluent Cloud connector catalog, is production-ready and offers scalability, performance, and flexibility across both source and sink connectors. Key features of the V2 connector include improved scalability bottlenecks, improved performance through a pull-based change feed model, flexible write patterns, better integration with Kafka infrastructure, high-throughput change feed reads, advanced sink strategies, built-in throughput control, integrated metrics and observability, improved security and authentication, and more reliable metadata handling. The connectors can be set up via UI, CLI, or API, and are designed to simplify the integration of Azure Cosmos DB with Kafka-powered event streaming architectures.

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