Confluent Blog

At Confluent, we focus on the holy trinity of performance, price, and availability, with the goal of delivering a similar performance envelope for all workloads across all supported cloud providers. […]

Serverless offerings in the cloud are a favorite among software engineers—a prime example are object stores such as AWS S3. For the system designer, however, it is an engineering challenge […]

Twenty years ago, the data warehouses of choice were Oracle and Teradata. Since then, growth and innovation has shifted to the cloud, and a new generation of data systems have […]

Today’s consumers have the entire world at their fingertips and hold an unforgiving expectation for end-to-end real-time brand experiences. This has become table stakes. If they have any need, it’s […]

For businesses to survive and thrive in today’s digital-first world, it’s become table stakes to offer rich, digital customer experiences and leverage data-driven, backend operations. Delivering on these initiatives requires […]

We’re pleased to announce ksqlDB 0.19.0! This release includes a new NULLIF function and a major upgrade to ksqlDB’s data modeling capabilities—foreign-key joins. We’re excited to share this highly requested […]

Data is the lifeblood of so much of what we build as software professionals, so it’s unsurprising that operations involving its transfer occupy the vast majority of developer time across […]

In Data Science projects, we distinguish between descriptive analytics and statistical models running in production. Overall, these can be seen as one process. You start with analyzing historical data to […]

Kafka Summit, now in its sixth year, is coming to Asia-Pacific! After launching in the U.S. in 2016 and in Europe in 2018, Kafka Summit APAC will feature speakers and […]

Companies adopt streaming data and Apache Kafka® because it provides them with real-time information about their business and customers. In practice, the challenge is that this information is spread across […]

Making changes to a database schema is a natural part of software development. Often, it’s important to carefully manage the timing of changes and keep track of them over time. […]

I’m excited to announce that Confluent was presented with the Databricks ISV Momentum Award at the Databricks Partner Executive Summit last month. This award is given to the partner whose […]

Today, Confluent became a publicly traded company. This is a big milestone in the short life of our company. To the employees, customers, partners, investors, and the larger developer community […]

Al data til folket (all data to the people) is a compelling proposition in an enterprise context. Yet the ability to quickly address integration challenges and deliver data to those […]