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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.
How to Monetize Enterprise Data: The Definitive Guide
Learn how to design and implement a real-time data monetization engine using streaming systems. Get architecture patterns, code examples, tradeoffs, and best practices for billing usage-based data products.
Detecting the Unexpected: Built-in Real-Time Anomaly Detection With Confluent Cloud for Apache Flink®
Learn how the built-in anomaly detection ML function in Confluent Cloud for Apache Flink® enables event-driven AI agents to detect and act on outlier system events faster.
Introducing Real-Time Context Engine: Simplified Context Engineering With Real-Time, Processed Data for AI
Unlock real-time context for AI with Confluent’s Real-Time Context Engine. Evaluate, process, and serve trustworthy context continuously in Confluent Cloud.
Faster, Smarter, More Context-Aware: What’s New in Streaming Agents
Explore new Streaming Agents features — Agent Definition, Observability & Debugging, and access to Real-Time Context Engine — to build intelligent, context-aware AI on Confluent.
Streaming Data to AI-Ready Tables: Tableflow for Delta Lake and Databricks Unity Catalog Is Now Generally Available
Transform real-time Kafka data into governed, AI-ready Delta Lake tables with Confluent Tableflow and Databricks Unity Catalog. Simplify pipelines, ensure governance, and unlock real-time analytics and AI.
New in Confluent Cloud: Data in Motion for AI in Action
Explore updates from Confluent Cloud’s Q4 2025 release, including new capabilities and availability for Streaming Agents, new Real-Time Context Engine, and more.
Unified Stream Manager: Manage and Monitor Apache Kafka® Across Environments
Unified Stream Manager is now GA! Bridge the gap between Confluent Platform and Confluent Cloud with a single pane of glass for hybrid data governance, end-to-end lineage, and observability.
Tableflow is Production Ready: Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, Azure Early Availability (EA), and More Enterprise-Grade Features
Tableflow on Confluent Cloud now supports Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, and Azure (EA) for secure, governed, real-time analytics from Apache Kafka data - no ETL or custom pipelines required.
Introducing Confluent Private Cloud: Cloud-Level Agility for Your Private Infrastructure
Confluent Private Cloud (CPC) is a new software package that extends Confluent’s cloud-native innovations to your private infrastructure. CPC offers an enhanced broker with up to 10x higher throughput and a new Gateway that provides network isolation and central policy enforcement without client...
Why Apache Kafka® Migration Costs Are Often Underestimated
Planning an Apache Kafka® migration? Learn how to estimate migration expenses, reduce costs, and compare self-managed vs managed real-time data platforms with expert insight.
Confluent and Your Data: A Partnership You Can Trust
Confluent prioritizes resilience for mission-critical apps, ensuring high availability with 99.99% uptime SLA. We also provide a number of capabilities for monitoring and observability within your own systems.
The True Cost of Real-Time Data Streaming
Explore the hidden costs of real-time streaming—compare infrastructure, ops, and ROI between Confluent Cloud and self-managed Apache Kafka®. Learn how auto-scaling and governance lower TCO.
How to Build Real-Time Compliance & Audit Logging With Apache Kafka®
Learn how to build a real-time compliance and audit logging pipeline using Apache Kafka® or the Confluent data streaming platform with architecture details and best practices including schemas, immutability, retention, and more.
Connect Migration Utility: Convert Self-Managed Connectors to Fully Managed in a Few Minutes
Use Confluent’s open source Connect migration utility to discover, assess, map, validate, and cut over self-managed Kafka connectors to fully managed in minutes.