Confluent Blog

Whether you’re looking to jump-start a new use case, or accelerate your migration journey, collaborating closely with Confluent and our partners enables you to fulfill the increasing need for real-time customer experiences and applications, opening doors to new growth and success opportunities.

We’re excited to announce Early Access for Confluent for VS Code. This Visual Studio integration streamlines workflows, accelerates development, and enhances real-time data processing, all in a unified environment. This post shows how to get started, and also lists opportunities to get involved.

The Q3 Cloud Bundle Launch comes to you from Current 2024, where data streaming industry experts have come together to show you why data streaming is critical today, especially in the age of AI, and how it will become even more important in shaping tomorrow’s businesses...

This blog introduces Confluent’s new OEM program.

The insurance industry has undergone a massive transformation over the last 20-30 years. Customer service and business processes that were once done on paper or over the phone are now completed via web and mobile experiences. As a result, manual paperwork and tasks have gradually become...

Three years into his time at Confluent, Martin Holmes, a Senior Manager of Technical Support Engineering in EMEA, continually looks for new ways to challenge himself and his team. Find out how Martin approaches people management, his experience dealing with disgruntled customers, and what he’s...

If you are a developer looking for an easier way to test your apps on topics with schemas, this is for you! Now you can easily create a message with a topic schema directly from the Confluent Cloud Console, with built-in validation and error checking.

While generative AI is driving the need for stronger data governance, it can also help to meet that need.

Confluent has acquired WarpStream, an innovative Kafka-compatible streaming solution. Read the full statement by Jay Kreps, co-founder and CEO of Confluent.

This is the Q3 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 celebrates the 1-year anniversary of the program.

The beauty of Kafka as a technology is that it can do a lot with little effort on your part. In effect, it’s a black box. But what if you need to see into the black box to debug something? This post shows what the producer does behind the scenes to help prepare your raw event data for the broker.

With AI model inference in Flink SQL, Confluent allows you to simplify the development and deployment of RAG-enabled GenAI applications by providing a unified platform for both data processing and AI tasks. Learn how you can use it to build a RAG-enabled Q&A chatbot using real-time airline data.

Transportation providers have long relied on manual processes to keep their operations flowing. While manual processes have underpinned the operations of these companies for years, they’ve also held them back from scaling. Busie, enables ground transportation providers to provide this kind of...