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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.

Products win trust initially. Sustained value, partnership, and execution earn loyalty, renewal, and advocacy.

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.

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 supports enriched, reusable, canonical streams that can be transformed, shared ,or replicated to different destinations, not just one.

Learn the difference between cloud API keys and resource-specific API keys in Confluent Cloud, plus best practices for service accounts and production security.

Learn how the Confluent Trust Center helps security and compliance teams accelerate due diligence, simplify audits, and gain confidence through transparency.

A global investment bank and Confluent used Apache Kafka to deliver sub-5ms p99 end-to-end latency with strict durability. Through disciplined architecture, monitoring, and tuning, they scaled from 100k to 1.6M msgs/s (<5KB), preserving order and transparent tail latency.

Learn how Thunai uses real-time data streaming to power agentic AI, achieving 70–80% L1 support deflection and cutting resolution time from hours to minutes.

How Confluent blends remote-first flexibility with in-person onboarding to build connection, purpose, and long-term employee success from day one.

ZooKeeper is going away. Learn why hosted Kafka migrations are accelerating—and how Confluent Cloud simplifies your move with KRaft and KCP.

Find out what’s next for Current 2026—including the role of the event in the growing data streaming community and updates to plans for Asia-Pacific and United States events.

Learn how to build a custom Kafka connector, which is an essential skill for anyone working with Apache Kafka® in real-time data streaming environments with a wide variety of data sources and sinks.

Manual schema management in Apache Kafka® leads to rising costs, compatibility risks, and engineering overhead. See how Confluent lowers your total cost of ownership for Kafka with Schema Registry and more.