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Over years of managing the data streaming needs of top global financial institutions, our system engineers and field CTOs have amassed a wealth of expertise around the critical path to modernizing a core banking system.

Stepping into the world of Apache Kafka® can feel a bit daunting at first. Get started with the top resources for beginners to start building your first Kafka application!

In the world of investment banking, there are thousands of trades happening every second. This means that real-time risk and margining are critical for clearing organizations to operate efficiently,and at scale.

Real-time data is rapidly becoming a standard in many consumer applications. From responsive chat applications to low latency financial applications, nobody wants to refresh their browser for new data. With lots of data bouncing around Kafka behind a firewall...

Fleet management has played a fundamental role in the operation of different businesses for decades. Haulage companies, construction firms, taxi operators, and rental businesses have all relied on some form of fleet management system to maintain their fleet of vehicles and increase the efficiency..

If you ask Wendell Slater what got him to Confluent, he’ll tell you it all started with him listening to a podcast. Three years in, Wendell now works as a cloud product representative...

Get ready to pack your bags and head to Las Vegas to meet Confluent at AWS re:Invent 2023. As a Platinum sponsor, we're pulling out all the stops to showcase the full power of our data streaming platform and demonstrate how we can help you get more from your data with Confluent Cloud on AWS.

Back in the 2000s, I was lucky enough to be working at a fantastic software company called Algorithmics, supporting the largest banks with its risk analysis software. At the height of its reach, Algorithmics was voted as the leading enterprise risk firm for market risk, economic capital...

In this blog post, we will provide an overview of Confluent's new SQL Workspaces for Flink, which offer the same functionality for streaming data that SQL users have come to expect for batch-based systems.

Today’s financial services companies are expected to use data to do it all—minimize friction in the customer experience, maximize business efficiency, and innovate. In siloed organizations, these competing goals result in disjointed data strategies and incompatible data sets...

The first-ever Confluent Public Sector Summit confirmed the keen interest government organizations have in using data to better empower their missions. A diverse group of over 160 participants...

Discover how Dialpad integrates data streaming and real-time analytics to power their AI-powered call center solutions.

Every consumer action in our modern world creates data, and businesses must make sense of it quickly to take advantage of opportunities in real time. This is especially true in the quickly maturing world of financial services...

First quarterly update of the CwC program since launch in July of 2023. Primary goal is to showcase the 12 new partners in the program.