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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...
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...
New in Confluent Intelligence: A2A, Multivariate Anomaly Detection, Vector Search for Cosmos DB, Amazon S3 Vectors, and More
Explore new Confluent Intelligence features: A2A integration, multivariate anomaly detection, vector search for Cosmos DB and S3 Vectors, Private Link, and MCP support.
How to Implement Your First ML Function in Streaming
Learn how to add your first ML model to a real-time streaming pipeline. Learn a simple, low-risk pattern for inference, scoring, and deployment with Apache Kafka®.
Confluent Cloud for Government Achieves FedRAMP Moderate: Mission-Ready Data Streaming for Federal Agencies
Confluent Cloud for Government has achieved FedRAMP Moderate authorization, allowing federal, state, and local agencies to deploy secure, fully managed data streaming. By eliminating the operational burden of self-managed Kafka, the platform helps agencies break down data silos, modernize legacy...
From Dumb Pipes to a Smart Data Plane: Introducing Schema IDs in Apache Kafka® Headers
Confluent’s Schema IDs in headers transform Kafka from "dumb pipes" to a "smart data plane." By moving metadata out of payloads, teams can schematize topics without breaking legacy apps or requiring big-bang migrations. This unlocks governed, AI-ready data for Flink and lakehouses with ease.
Sustainable Streaming Architectures: A GreenOps Guide to Efficient, Low-Carbon Data Systems
Design energy-efficient, low-cost streaming systems. Learn GreenOps patterns to reduce compute waste, optimize storage, and lower the carbon footprint of real-time data.
Confluent Cloud’s Path to Post-Quantum Cryptography
At Confluent, our mission is to provide the world’s most secure and scalable data streaming platform. As cryptographic standards evolve to meet the challenges of the future, we are committed to ensuring your data remains protected against emerging threats—including the eventual development of Cr...
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...
How to Build Autonomous Data Systems for Real-Time Decisioning
Learn how real-time decisioning and autonomous data systems enable organizations to act on data instantly using streaming, automation, and AI.
Confluent Champion: Building a Secure Foundation for Accelerating Product Launches
Meet Akshay Ben, Senior Software Engineer II at Confluent, and learn how IAM, RBAC, and platform security enable faster, scalable product launches.
What’s New in Confluent Clients for Kafka: Python Async GA, Schema Registry Upgrades
Explore the latest Confluent client updates, featuring Python asyncio general availability, improved support for Schema Registry and more.
New in Confluent Intelligence: A2A, Multivariate Anomaly Detection, Vector Search for Cosmos DB, Amazon S3 Vectors, and More
Explore new Confluent Intelligence features: A2A integration, multivariate anomaly detection, vector search for Cosmos DB and S3 Vectors, Private Link, and MCP support.
Kafka Copy Paste (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.
New in Confluent Cloud: Data Streaming for Any Workload, at Any Scale
Confluent Cloud’s Q1 2026 launch delivers message queuing capabilities via Queues for Kafka, simplified migration with KCP, new AI capabilities with Confluent Intelligence, and enhanced scalability and cost control features like fetch-from-follower and client quotas.
Scaling the Streaming Stack: Introducing the Sell with Confluent Partner Program
Sell with Confluent is our new reseller engagement model, designed to empower partners with streamlined quoting, automated incentives, and scalable growth.
How to Break Off Your First Microservice
Learn how to safely break off your first microservice from a monolith using a low-risk, incremental migration approach.