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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.
Why More Teams Are Starting With Confluent Cloud on AWS Marketplace
Build real-time apps in minutes. Confluent Cloud on AWS Marketplace offers fully managed Kafka with Flink, Iceberg, 120+ connectors, and enterprise-grade governance—so your team spends less time on ops and more on innovation.
Introducing Apache Kafka® 4.1.0: What’s New and How to Upgrade
Announcing the release of Apache Kafka 4.1
Cut the Costs of Hosted Apache Kafka® With Confluent Cloud’s Price Guarantee
This blog post outlines the top four challenges of using hyperscaler-hosted Kafka, focusing on high costs, manual maintenance, reliability gaps, and vendor lock-in. It then explains how Confluent Cloud is architected to solve each of these specific problems for customers.
Confluent Champion: How Vineet Pursues Engineering Excellence in an Innovation Culture
Learn about Vineet’s experience and growth at Confluent and how his team and environment have set him up for success.
Using Webhooks to Integrate Confluent Cloud and Microsoft Teams
Learn how to use webhooks to integrate your Microsoft Teams tenant with Confluent Cloud and receive service event notifications directly in your inbox or team channels.
How to Protect PII in Apache Kafka® With Schema Registry and Data Contracts
Protect sensitive data with Data Contracts using Confluent Schema Registry.
Unleash Real-Time Agentic AI: Introducing Streaming Agents on Confluent Cloud
Build event-driven agents on Apache Flink® with Streaming Agents on Confluent Cloud—fresh context, MCP tool calling, real-time embeddings, and enterprise governance.
New in Confluent Cloud: Unleashing Cost-Effective Streaming for Any Workload
Confluent Cloud’s Q3 launch delivers cost-effective streaming with new features like Private Network Interface (PNI) for lower networking costs, boosted client connection limits, Streaming Agents for real-time agentic AI, expanded Tableflow functionality with upserts, Cluster Linking on Google Cl...
How Confluent Is Enhancing and Easing Migration to Fully Managed Connectors
Confluent has enhanced its fully managed connectors with new features like exposed connector logs for non-admins, plugin versioning, expanded SMT support, custom topic naming for DLQ and error topics, and specific connector updates. These improvements offer better control, data guarantees, user...
Announcing the Confluent Cloud Fully Managed Sink Connector for ClickHouse
Stream to ClickHouse with ease. Our new fully managed sink connector on Confluent Cloud is now GA—zero ops, auto scaling, and built-in security.
How Confluent Helps Software Providers Build Real-Time Products and SaaS Faster
Mitigate risk and fuel business growth by embedding Confluent's leading enterprise-grade data streaming platform, with tools and capabilities that complement Apache Kafka®, to make your data streaming easy and reliable.
Our latest blog reveals why real-time data is critical for AI success and...
From Oracle to MongoDB: How to Modernize Your Tech Stack for Real-Time AI Decisioning
Turn legacy Oracle data into real-time AI insights using Kafka, Flink, and MongoDB. Learn how to stream, enrich, and personalize faster than batch ever could.
Introducing Private Network Interface: Secure Private Networking on AWS for 50% Less
Confluent has introduced Private Network Interface (PNI) for AWS, a new secure networking option that helps save 50% on networking costs and has been successfully adopted by customers like Indeed. PNI is now available for Enterprise and Freight clusters.
Confluent Announces $200M Investment Across Global Partner Ecosystem
Confluent is investing $200M over three years to expand its global partner ecosystem. This commitment will accelerate real-time data streaming adoption, unlock new revenue streams, and help partners capitalize on the more than $100 billion data streaming market driven by AI and event-driven archi...