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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.
Build Compliant AI Agents With Stateful Stream Processing
EU AI Act obligations for high-risk systems hit in August 2026. Stateless agent frameworks can't satisfy them. This guide covers seven types of state compliant agents must maintain, four streaming patterns for auditability, and a reference architecture using Kafka and Flink as the control plane.
Build vs Buy Streaming for Real-Time RAG: 2026 Guide
Production RAG isn't an API problem. It's a streaming systems problem. This guide breaks down the real TCO of building your own CDC, processing, and embedding infrastructure vs. buying a managed platform, with a decision matrix for custom build, MSK, Redpanda, and Confluent.
Customer Intelligence Hub: A Single Pane of Glass for Customer Insight and Action
Customer Intelligence Hub unifies customer signals into a real-time, AI-powered view that helps GTM teams prioritize risk, identify opportunity, and act faster with contextual insights.
Proven: Up to 73% Fewer Brokers With Confluent Private Cloud – and More
Confluent Private Cloud matches Kafka performance with up to 73% fewer brokers. Benchmarks prove massive TCO savings, while Centralized Policy Enforcement streamlines data governance and broker-native multi-tenancy provides the isolation needed to end "noisy neighbor" issues for good.
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.