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The Confluent Q3 ‘22 Launch, our latest set of Confluent Cloud product launches, is live and packed full of new features to help your business innovate quickly with real-time data

In a modern data stack, being able to discover, understand, organize and reuse data is key to obtaining the most value from your data. These requirements have led to the

As part of our series walking through how we built Confluent Cloud into a 10x better Apache Kafka® service, we explored how Confluent Cloud uses Intelligent Storage to achieve 10x

Understanding how data flows and is transformed across the different layers of an organization’s application and data stack is one of the most challenging governance problems companies are facing today.

Dealing with garbage in, garbage out (GIGO) has tormented data teams for generations. Analytics and decision making have suffered from this “garbage”. The new era of machine learning and being

Confluent for Kubernetes (CFK) has added declarative API support for Cluster Linking, allowing you to connect public and private cloud environments with a declarative API. Confluent for Kubernetes provides a

An inevitable consequence of rapid business growth is that there will be incidents: even the best, most well-planned systems will begin to fail when you expand them very quickly. The

Elasticity is one of the table stakes for a mature cloud service. Elasticity enables the addition of capacity in a cloud service as needed to meet spikes in demand, and

At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020, Instacart experienced its highest customer demand in history. Its customer-facing applications, backend systems, and business processes were all put to

People often imagine that to provide a cloud service for a piece of open source software is a simple matter of packaging up the open source and putting it in