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Data Products, Data Contracts, and Change Data Capture
Change data capture is a popular method to connect database tables to data streams, but it comes with drawbacks. The next evolution of the CDC pattern, first-class data products, provide resilient pipelines that support both real-time and batch processing while isolating upstream systems...
Unlock Cost Savings with Freight Clusters–Now in General Availability
Confluent Cloud Freight clusters are now Generally Available on AWS. In this blog, learn how Freight clusters can save you up to 90% at GBps+ scale.
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 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.
Apache Kafka 4.2.0 Release Announcement
Apache Kafka 4.2.0 is here. Explore production-ready share groups, Kafka Streams rebalance GA, new metrics, security enhancements, and upgrade details.
Beyond Zero-Ops: Architectural Precision for MongoDB Atlas Connectors
Master MongoDB Atlas Connectors on Confluent Cloud. Go beyond basic setup with architectural best practices for Source and Sink. Learn to ensure idempotency, handle CDC events, tune performance, and configure precision filtering for resilient, high-velocity data pipelines.
How to Future-Proof Architectures With Continuous Availability Via Hybrid & Multicloud
Learn how to design future-proof architectures for hybrid and multicloud environments, balancing portability, resilience, and long-term flexibility and using Kafka to implement continuous availability.
Do Customers Really Care If You Love Them?
Products win trust initially. Sustained value, partnership, and execution earn loyalty, renewal, and advocacy.
Disaster Recovery in 60 Seconds: A POC for Seamless Client Failover on Confluent Cloud
Kafka client failover is hard. This post proposes a gateway‑orchestrated pattern: use Confluent Cloud Gateway plus Cluster Linking to reroute traffic, reverse replication, and enable one‑click failover/failback with minimal RTO.
Focal Systems: Boosting Store Performance with an AI Retail Operating System and Real-Time Data
Discover how Focal Systems uses computer vision, AI, and data streaming to improve retail store performance, shelf availability, and real-time inventory accuracy.
Streaming Data Integration with Apache Kafka®
Streaming data integration supports enriched, reusable, canonical streams that can be transformed, shared ,or replicated to different destinations, not just one.
Cloud API Keys vs Resource-Specific API Keys in Confluent Cloud
Learn the difference between cloud API keys and resource-specific API keys in Confluent Cloud, plus best practices for service accounts and production security.
Empowering Customers: The Role of Confluent’s Trust Center
Learn how the Confluent Trust Center helps security and compliance teams accelerate due diligence, simplify audits, and gain confidence through transparency.