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KCP: How to Migrate to Confluent Cloud in Days, Not Weeks
Learn how to migrate to Confluent Cloud in hours using Confluent’s open source Kafka Copy Paste tool. Get an in-depth introduction to the KCP tool and a walk-through of the four steps of migrating from MSK to Confluent Cloud using the tool.
Announcing Confluent Platform 8.3: Powerful Apache Flink® SQL operations, Easier KRaft Migrations, Expanded Monitoring and more.
Confluent Platform (CP) 8.3.0, built on Apache Kafka® 4.3.0, helps platform teams simplify Apache Flink® SQL operations, migrate their streaming infrastructure with ease, maintain unified visibility while reinforcing security and governance.
New in Confluent Intelligence and AI Tools: Making Agents Native to the Stream, Expanded Model Support, New Agent Skills, and Copilot
Explore new AI features and AI tools: support for IBM Granite Time Series models and TimesFM models (EA), enhanced Real-Time Context Engine experience, new Agent Skills, Confluent Copilot
New in Confluent Cloud and WarpStream: Evolving the Data Streaming Platform for AI, Scale, and Control
Accelerate enterprise streaming and AI workloads with new product updates across Kora, connectors, Flink, Tableflow, AI anomaly detection and forecasting, security enhancements, and WarpStream.
New in Confluent Intelligence and AI Tools: Making Agents Native to the Stream, Expanded Model Support, New Agent Skills, and Copilot
Explore new AI features and AI tools: support for IBM Granite Time Series models and TimesFM models (EA), enhanced Real-Time Context Engine experience, new Agent Skills, Confluent Copilot
Confluent Cloud for Apache Flink: Engine for Mission-Critical, Real-Time Operational Systems and dbt/SQL-Native Home for Data Science and AI
Flink now acts as a robust engine for developers through Table API, User-Defined Functions (UDFs), and Process Table Functions (PTFs) while offering a SQL-native, dbt-integrated platform for data science and AI teams.
How Neuron Systems Served 2.3 Million Fans Across 104 World Cup Matches with AI on Confluent
Every one of the 42.1 million production events flowed through Confluent’s Data Streaming Platform and that single decision is what let a small team serve a global tournament without the commentary ever falling out of sync.
Announcing Confluent Platform 8.3: Powerful Apache Flink® SQL operations, Easier KRaft Migrations, Expanded Monitoring and more.
Confluent Platform (CP) 8.3.0, built on Apache Kafka® 4.3.0, helps platform teams simplify Apache Flink® SQL operations, migrate their streaming infrastructure with ease, maintain unified visibility while reinforcing security and governance.
Announcing Upvest as Confluent’s 2026 EMEA Data Streaming Startup of the Year
Confluent for Startups has named Berlin-based Upvest its 2026 EMEA Data Streaming Startup of the Year. Learn how Upvest uses Confluent to power real-time embedded investing, meet stringent regulatory requirements, and scale modern fintech infrastructure for leading financial institutions.
Tableflow: Turn Kafka Topics into Iceberg Tables
Learn how Confluent Tableflow turns Kafka topics into Iceberg tables for zero-ETL analytics with automatic schema evolution and open catalog access.
Deep Dive into SASL PLAIN and SCRAM in Kafka: Login Modules and Config Hot-Reload
Explore how SASL PLAIN and SCRAM work in Kafka, the role of Login Modules in authentication, and how ConfigProvider enables secure, hot-reload of credentials without downtime.
Building Secure, Resilient, and Compliant Fraud Detection With Confluent Cloud
Financial institutions must process fraud detection in real time without sacrificing security or uptime. Confluent Cloud leverages Kafka and Flink to deliver a secure, compliant, and highly resilient data streaming platform that stops fraud in-flight while meeting strict financial regulations.
Stream Governance: Making Compliance a Property of Data in Motion
Traditional governance tools fail to protect data in motion as companies shift to real-time streaming. Confluent’s Stream Governance suite solves this by providing specialized tracking, schema enforcement, and advanced encryption. This embeds security and compliance directly into the live data flow.
Meeting Data (and Analytics) Engineers Where They Are: Introducing the dbt Adapter for Confluent Cloud
The dbt-confluent adapter brings dbt's familiar development workflow to Confluent Cloud for Apache Flink, enabling data engineers to build, test, and deploy streaming SQL pipelines with the tools they already know.
