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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.
AI Tools for Builders — Confluent's MCP Server & Agent Skills
Confluent's AI developer tools are now GA: an open-source local MCP server, a managed MCP server, and Agent Skills. Together they give AI coding assistants direct access to your streaming platform — the tools to act on it and the domain knowledge to build correctly.
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
Introducing Apache Kafka 3.5
We are proud to announce the release of Apache Kafka® 3.5.0. This release contains many new features and improvements. This blog post will highlight some of the more prominent features.
Meet Caroline, Our June 2023 Confluent Champion
When Caroline Staudenraus was looking to transition out of a career in teaching, she landed a job in technology sales as an SDR at Confluent. Five years in, Caroline currently works as an account executive in the Digital Native
GPT-4 + Streaming Data = Real-Time Generative AI
ChatGPT and data streaming can work together for any company. Learn a basic framework for using GPT-4 and streaming to build a real-world production application.
Self-Service GitOps for Confluent Cloud
GitOps can work with policy-as-code systems to provide a true self-service model for managing Confluent resources. Policy-as-code is the practice of permitting or preventing actions based on rules and conditions defined in code. In the context of GitOps for Confluent, suitable policies...
Aggregate and Stream Your Security Data to Amazon Security Lake at Scale with Confluent
Data breaches and cyber attacks are a growing concern among many companies today. With the ever-increasing cost of data breaches, businesses are constantly searching for ways to secure their data and infrastructure better.
Meet Sharmey Shah, Our Confluent Champion for AAPI Heritage Month
Meet Sharmey Shah—Area Vice President of the Northeast region in North America. Having joined the Enterprise Sales organization over a year ago, Sharmey has helped revitalize customer experience in innovative ways.
How BigCommerce Uses Data Streaming to Bring Real-Time Insights to Merchants
As a consumer, you’ve no doubt ordered something online by tapping into the e-commerce functionality of BigCommerce. The aptly named platform enables many big-name brands—Ben & Jerry’s, Crest, GE, Harley-Davidson, and tens of thousands of others
How to Source Data From Amazon DynamoDB to Confluent
Amazon DynamoDB is a fully managed, serverless, key-value NoSQL database service that is highly available and scalable. It is designed to deliver single-digit millisecond query performance at any scale. It offers a fast and flexible way to store...
How To Automatically Detect PII for Real-Time Cyber Defense
Our new PII Detection solution enables you to securely utilize your unstructured text by enabling entity-level control. Combined with our suite of data governance tools, you can execute a powerful real-time cyber defense strategy.
Real-Time Data Streaming: What It Does and Why It Matters
Check out how data streaming works and how it helps businesses act, not react, to what's happening in real time. Get the data streaming basics and explore how businesses are getting started.
Ready to Relive the Excitement of Kafka Summit 2023? Here’s What Went Down!
"It really is an awesome time for this community,” said Jay Kreps, CEO of Confluent, in his opening keynote to over 1,500 live attendees (and 2k+ virtual viewers) from 50+ countries at Kafka Summit London.
Connect, Process, and Share Trusted Data Faster Than Ever: Kora Engine, Data Quality Rules, and More
Announcing the latest updates to Confluent’s cloud-native data streaming platform: Kora Engine, Data Quality Rules, Custom Connectors, Streaming Sharing, and more.
New Report: The ROI of Data Streaming and Its Biggest Challenges
This year, we crossed an important threshold: data streaming is now considered a business requirement for organizations across many industries. Findings from the 2023 Data Streaming Report show that 72% of the 2,250 IT leaders surveyed are using data streaming to power mission-critical systems.
Kora: The Cloud Native Engine for Apache Kafka
Take a tour of the internals of Confluent’s Apache Kafka® service, powered by Kora: the next-generation, cloud-native streaming engine.