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Queues for Apache Kafka® Is Here: Your Guide to Getting Started in Confluent
Confluent announces the General Availability of Queues for Kafka on Confluent Cloud and Confluent Platform with Apache Kafka 4.2. This production-ready feature brings native queue semantics to Kafka through KIP-932, enabling organizations to consolidate streaming and queuing infrastructure while...
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: Real-Time Context Engine Upgrade, New Model Support, ML Functions, and More
Explore new Confluent Intelligence features: enhanced querying with Real-Time Context Engine, PII detection, sentiment analysis, and support for TimesFM, Anthropic, and Fireworks AI models.
Getting Started with Database Modernization
For many companies, the journey to the cloud started as a way to take advantage of the cost savings, speed, and scale of cloud computing. You may have already started […]
Confluent announces launch of Cloud Reseller Program
Today, Confluent is happy to announce the launch of our Confluent Cloud Reseller Program. Our Cloud Reseller Program aims to give AWS customers the tools to simplify the procurement of […]
Apache Kafka at Home: A Houseplant Alerting System with ksqlDB
Back in 2020, so many folks picked up pandemic hobbies—things they could throw themselves into at full force while they were restricted by lockdowns. I chose houseplants. Prior to the […]
Streaming Data Pipelines: Reinventing Data Flows
The worlds of data integration and data pipelines are changing in ways that are highly reminiscent of the profound changes I witnessed in application and service development over the last twenty years.
4 Must-Have Tests for Your Apache Kafka CI/CD with GitHub Actions
Millions of developers code on GitHub, and if you’re one of those developers using it to create Apache Kafka® applications—for which there are 70,000+ Kafka-related repositories—it is natural to integrate […]
Announcing ksqlDB 0.27.1
We are excited to announce the ksqlDB 0.27.1 release! This iteration brings forth new functionality for dynamic data access against multi-schema topics, a host of improvements relating to working with […]
The Confluent Q3 ’22 Launch: Confluent Terraform Provider, Independent Network Lifecycle Management, and More
The Confluent Q3 ‘22 Launch, our latest set of Confluent Cloud product launches, is live and packed full of new features to help your business innovate quickly with real-time data […]
Introducing Confluent Platform 7.2: Enhanced Cloud-Native Security and Geo-Replication
We are pleased to announce the release of Confluent Platform 7.2. With this release, we are further simplifying management tasks for Apache Kafka® operators, providing even more flexible options to […]
How to Find, Share, and Organize Your Data Streams with Stream Catalog
In a modern data stack, being able to discover, understand, organize and reuse data is key to obtaining the most value from your data. These requirements have led to the […]
Building Kafka Storage That’s 10x More Scalable and Performant
As part of our series walking through how we built Confluent Cloud into a 10x better Apache Kafka® service, we explored how Confluent Cloud uses Intelligent Storage to achieve 10x […]
Confluent India’s Head of HR: “Working here has helped me grow both professionally and personally as a woman in tech”
An interview with Nisha Natarajan, Human Resources Manager, India When Nisha joined Confluent India’s team as Workplace Manager in December 2019 there were fewer than ten people in the office […]
Introducing the Data Streaming Awards: Time to Nominate!
We are delighted to announce the inaugural Data Streaming Awards, where winners will be announced at Current 2022! Here, a panel of judges from across the data streaming industry will […]
How streaming data and a lakehouse paradigm can help manage risk in volatile trading markets
As we are witnessing, global capital markets are subject to a number of different forces that can impact market and portfolio volatility and risk. For financial services firms, the challenge […]
How to Visualize Your Apache Kafka Data the Easy Way with Stream Lineage
Understanding how data flows and is transformed across the different layers of an organization’s application and data stack is one of the most challenging governance problems companies are facing today. […]