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This blog announces the general availability of Confluent Platform 7.8 and its latest key features: Confluent Platform for Apache Flink® (GA), mTLS Identity for RBAC Authorization, and more.

This blog details an end-to-end real-time prediction project leveraging the combined capabilities of Confluent Cloud stacks and Google Cloud Vertex AI. This project aims to deliver a streamlined solution for real-time prediction applications, catering to the evolving needs and challenges of moder...

Tableflow can seamlessly make your Kafka operational data available to your AWS analytics ecosystem with minimal effort, leveraging the capabilities of Confluent Tableflow and Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse.

With both Confluent and Amazon Redshift supporting mTLS, streaming developers and architects are able to take advantage of a native integration that allows Amazon Redshift to query Confluent Cloud topics.

This blog post announces Confluent’s entrance into MongoDB’s AI partner program (MAAP) and introduces a technical quickstart for development of a finserv GenAI chat bot use case with Confluent, MongoDB, and Anthropic on AWS.

Dive into the inner workings of brokers as they serve data up to a consumer.

This is the Q4 CwC announcement blog—a quarterly installment introducing new entrants into the Connect with Confluent technology partner program. Every blog has a new theme, this blog focused on shift left and new use cases for SAP and GenAI.

Since its inception, change data capture (CDC) technology has significantly evolved, transitioning from a tool primarily used for database replication and migration to a cornerstone of real-time streaming. Its pivotal role in modern data architectures enables businesses to harness real-time data...

From joining Confluent as one of the first engineers on the security team to now managing a team of four, Tejal has had incredible opportunities to learn and grow during her six years at the company.

Let’s learn more about Tejal and how Confluent fosters an environment of constant learning—all...

We are proud to announce the release of Apache Kafka 3.9.0. This is a major release, the final one in the 3.x line. This will also be the final major release to feature the deprecated Apache ZooKeeper® mode. Starting in 4.0 and later, Kafka will always run without ZooKeeper.

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This blog explores how cloud service providers (CSPs) and managed service providers (MSPs) increasingly recognize the advantages of leveraging Confluent to deliver fully managed Kafka services to their clients. Confluent enables these service providers to deliver higher value offerings to wider...