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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.
Let’s Build Great Things – Together
We live in exciting times, a moment rich with dramatic tech innovations and transformative, data-driven business changes. While the opportunities before us are great, so are the challenges. Big ideas […]
How Confluent Treats Incidents in the Cloud
An inevitable consequence of rapid business growth is that there will be incidents: even the best, most well-planned systems will begin to fail when you expand them very quickly. The […]
How to Elastically Scale Apache Kafka Clusters on Confluent Cloud
Elasticity is one of the table stakes for a mature cloud service. Elasticity enables the addition of capacity in a cloud service as needed to meet spikes in demand, and […]
Announcing ksqlDB 0.26
We are excited to bring forward yet another ksqlDB release with ksqlDB 0.26. This time we have focused on improving your experience with aggregate functions, JOINs, and schemas. We have […]
Making Confluent Cloud 10x More Elastic Than Apache Kafka
At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020, Instacart experienced its highest customer demand in history. Its customer-facing applications, backend systems, and business processes were all put to […]
Confluent Cloud: Making an Apache Kafka Service 10x Better
People often imagine that to provide a cloud service for a piece of open source software is a simple matter of packaging up the open source and putting it in […]
Engineering Manager Tiffany Jianto on Career Growth and Taking Ownership at Confluent
Amid a successful career at Amazon, Tiffany Jianto found herself deciding between another tech giant and Confluent. Below, she explains why she chose to join our team, how she supports […]
Current 2022: How to Become a Speaker
At this year’s Kafka Summit London we announced Current 2022: The Next Generation of Kafka Summit. This is a technical conference for everything data in motion. Current 2022 will take […]
The Results Are in From The First Ever Data in Motion Report
There’s an increasing need for businesses to act intelligently and in real time to win in today’s digital-first world. To achieve this, forward-thinking companies are modernizing their data infrastructure with […]
Stream Processing vs. Batch Processing: What to Know
With more data being produced in real time by many systems and devices than ever before, it is critical to be able to process it in real time and get […]
What’s New in Apache Kafka 3.2.0
I’m proud to announce the release of Apache Kafka 3.2.0 on behalf of the Apache Kafka® community. The 3.2.0 release contains many new features and improvements. This blog will highlight […]
Confluent at a Fully Disconnected Edge
Internet connectivity is something we sometimes take for granted. For many, most places we visit, work, or reside have some form of connectivity whether it be cellular, Wi-Fi, fiber, etc. […]
How Walmart Uses Apache Kafka for Real-Time Replenishment at Scale
Walmart’s global presence, with its vast number of retail stores plus its robust and rapidly growing e-commerce business, make it one of the most challenging retail companies on the planet […]
From the Cellar to the Cloud – How Aedifion is Driving Next-Generation Building Automation with Confluent
It is no exaggeration that a lot is going wrong in commercial buildings today. The building and construction sector consumes 36% of global final energy and accounts for almost 40% […]