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I'm excited to share our intent to acquire Immerok! Together, we’ll build a cloud-native service for Apache Flink that delivers the same simplicity, security, and scalability that you expect from Confluent for Kafka.
"It really is an awesome time for this community,” said Jay Kreps, CEO of Confluent, in his opening keynote to over 1,500 live attendees (and 2k+ virtual viewers) from 50+ countries at Kafka Summit London.
Great businesses are built on making the right tradeoffs, and that’s particularly true for startups. At an early stage, a startup’s choices around how and where to deploy its limited […]
Today, I am thrilled to announce a new strategic alliance with Microsoft to enable a seamless, integrated experience between Confluent Cloud and the Azure platform. This represents a significant milestone […]
As part of this year’s Kafka Summit, the Confluent Community team hosted a community hackathon named Kafkathon 2020. The event provided an opportunity for participants to learn, build, and showcase […]
I’m excited to announce a new strategic partnership with IBM. As part of this partnership, IBM will be reselling Confluent Platform, enabling its customers to leverage their existing IBM relationships […]
My own sense of the passage of time in 2020 is no sure guide, but honestly it seems like Kafka Summit just happened—yet here we are, deep into planning for […]
As a South African, who grew up during the era of apartheid, I’ve witnessed firsthand the negative and long-lasting impact of discrimination, bias, and inequity, and I have a strong […]
If you know me, you know two things: first, that I am committed to remote work as an effective way to build a company; I’ve been a remote employee for […]
Here is what happened on day one of the event—spoiler alert: My first Summit was awesome. This year’s Kafka Summit is my first and I’ve been lucky to have a […]
Can you believe that Kafka Summit 2020 is just a week away? The members of the Apache Kafka® community worldwide (literally) are getting ready to discuss the future of event […]
In March, I wrote about Confluent’s commitment to our customers, employees, and community during the COVID-19 pandemic. In some respects, it’s hard to believe that only a few months have […]
The first-ever virtual Kafka Summit 2020 kicks off next month in the comfort of your home office, couch, spare bedroom, living room, outbuilding, lanai, veranda, or in-home portico, featuring an […]
At Confluent, every now and then we like to take a day away from our normal sprint tasks to hack. There are a ton of benefits to hack days, including: […]
As you know, we were looking forward to welcoming the Apache Kafka® community to Austin, TX, for Kafka Summit in August. Meeting together in person is always the best way […]
It’s an exciting day for Confluent, in the middle of a very unusual and difficult time in the larger world. Nonetheless, I thought it was important we share this news […]
As the impact of COVID-19 (coronavirus) continues to spread, our top priority is the health and well-being of our customers, employees, and community. We are acutely aware that these are […]