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Aiven, Confluent, Redpanda, StreamNative and Ververica Form Streamhouse Working Group
New industry initiative establishes an open category for data architectures that power real-time applications and AI agents
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.
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.
New in Confluent Cloud: Making Data, Pipelines, and Ops Accessible for AI-Ready Streaming
Confluent Cloud’s Q2 ‘26 launch makes AI-ready streaming accessible by delivering SQL-based workflows via the dbt adapter for Flink, enhanced developer tooling with managed MCP server and Agent Skills, production-grade AI solutions through Streaming Agents and Real-Time Context Engine, and more.
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.
Designing Sovereignty in Real-Time Data Streaming
Confluent's architectural approach to digital sovereignty for real-time streaming, showcasing our deployment spectrum, zero-access guarantees, and open-source foundation
Feed Your Data Lake With Real-Time, Analytics-Ready Tables for 30-50% Lower Cost Using Tableflow
Confluent Tableflow simplifies the process of feeding data lakes and lakehouses by turning Kafka topics directly into analytics-ready Iceberg or Delta Lake tables, eliminating complex traditional ETL stacks leading to 30%–50% lower total ingestion costs.
The Last (and Longest) Mile of Apache Kafka® Migrations: Client Migrations With KCP and Confluent Cloud Gateway
This blog post introduces KCP integration with Gateway, which automates Kafka client cutover by routing traffic through an auth-translating proxy and orchestrating group-based, offset-safe migrations to Confluent Cloud with just a few CLI commands.
Introducing Confluent Platform 8.2: Queues for Apache Kafka®, Flink SQL, and More
We’re excited to announce Confluent Platform 8.2! Built on Apache Kafka 4.2, it introduces Queues for Kafka (GA) for native task-queue workloads, Flink SQL (GA) to simplify stream processing, and CPC Gateway 1.2 for seamless client switchover to make managing migrations easier than ever.