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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...
AI Tools for Builders — Confluent's MCP Server & Agent Skills
Confluent's AI developer tools are now GA: an open-source local MCP server, a managed MCP server, and Agent Skills. Together they give AI coding assistants direct access to your streaming platform — the tools to act on it and the domain knowledge to build correctly.
New in Confluent Intelligence: Real-Time Context Engine Upgrade, New Model Support, ML Functions, and More
Explore new Confluent Intelligence features: enhanced querying with Real-Time Context Engine, PII detection, sentiment analysis, and support for TimesFM, Anthropic, and Fireworks AI models.
Confluent’s Data Streaming Platform Can Save Over $2.5M vs. Self-Managing Apache Kafka
If you’re reading this, it’s likely because you are leveraging (or considering) Apache Kafka® in your organization—especially as it has become the de facto standard for data streaming. Adopted by […]
Building Real-Time Data Systems the Hard Way
A few years ago I helped build an event-driven system for gym bookings. The pitch was that we were building a better experience for both the gym members booking different […]
How Storyblocks Enabled a New Class of Event-Driven Microservices with Confluent
In many ways, Storyblocks’ technical journey has mirrored that of most other startups and disruptors: Start small and as simple as possible (i.e., with a PHP monolith) Watch the company […]
Bringing Your Own Monitoring (BYOM) with Confluent Cloud
As data flows in and out of your Confluent Cloud clusters, it’s imperative to monitor their behavior. Bring Your Own Monitoring (BYOM) means you can configure an application performance monitoring […]
3 Reasons Why Storyblocks Chose Confluent Over Other Apache Kafka Services
Storyblocks is the world’s first stock media subscription service offering video, audio, and images. To support this fast-growing business, the Storyblocks platform produces millions of events every day, ranging from […]
Defrag Your Data Architecture
With many operating systems you have to periodically run a disk defragmenter program (“defrag”) to restore your system efficiency. By reorganizing the data stored on disk, sequential data becomes more […]
Streaming SFDC Data to BigQuery for Real-Time Customer Analytics
A common challenge organizations face is how to extract, transform, and load (ETL) Salesforce data into a data warehouse, so that the business can use the data. Salesforce (SFDC) is […]
Thierry Mbemba Grows with Confluent, Emerging as a Sales Leader
In four years, Thierry Mbemba has gone from an entry-level sales rep at Confluent to one of the leading producers on the company’s worldwide sales team. A customer relationships driver […]
AWS and Confluent Announce Deepened Strategic Collaboration
Today we’re announcing an exciting Strategic Collaboration Agreement (SCA) with Amazon Web Services (AWS). This new five-year agreement builds on our strong existing collaboration, with the goal of making it […]
IoT Reference Architecture and Implementation Guide Using Confluent and MongoDB Realm
The Internet of Things (IoT)—connecting physical objects to software components—has created several innovations and opportunities for enterprise companies, and continues to grow in top industries, including healthcare, smart factories, energy, […]
Adopt Data Streaming with The Definitive Guide
Enabling data in motion within an organization involves much more than simply setting up a Confluent cluster, piping in a few data sources, and writing a set of streaming applications. […]
What’s New in Apache Kafka 3.1.0
On behalf of the Apache Kafka® community, it is my pleasure to announce the release of Apache Kafka 3.1.0. The 3.1.0 release contains many improvements and new features. We’ll highlight […]
Customer Support at Confluent: Good People, Rapid Growth
What’s it really like to spend your days helping Confluent customers? Below, Alex Altman (Senior Director of Americas Support), Sam Hecht (VP, Global Support and Success Engineering), and Anna McDonald […]
Introduction to Streaming Data Pipelines with Apache Kafka and ksqlDB
A data pipeline is a method for getting data from one system to another, whether for analytics purposes or for storage. Learning the elements that make up this proven architecture […]