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Data Products, Data Contracts, and Change Data Capture
Change data capture is a popular method to connect database tables to data streams, but it comes with drawbacks. The next evolution of the CDC pattern, first-class data products, provide resilient pipelines that support both real-time and batch processing while isolating upstream systems...
Unlock Cost Savings with Freight Clusters–Now in General Availability
Confluent Cloud Freight clusters are now Generally Available on AWS. In this blog, learn how Freight clusters can save you up to 90% at GBps+ scale.
Unleash Real-Time Agentic AI: Introducing Streaming Agents on Confluent Cloud
Build event-driven agents on Apache Flink® with Streaming Agents on Confluent Cloud—fresh context, MCP tool calling, real-time embeddings, and enterprise governance.
Apache Kafka 4.2.0 Release Announcement
Apache Kafka 4.2.0 is here. Explore production-ready share groups, Kafka Streams rebalance GA, new metrics, security enhancements, and upgrade details.
Beyond Zero-Ops: Architectural Precision for MongoDB Atlas Connectors
Master MongoDB Atlas Connectors on Confluent Cloud. Go beyond basic setup with architectural best practices for Source and Sink. Learn to ensure idempotency, handle CDC events, tune performance, and configure precision filtering for resilient, high-velocity data pipelines.
How to Future-Proof Architectures With Continuous Availability Via Hybrid & Multicloud
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.
Do Customers Really Care If You Love Them?
Products win trust initially. Sustained value, partnership, and execution earn loyalty, renewal, and advocacy.
Disaster Recovery in 60 Seconds: A POC for Seamless Client Failover on Confluent Cloud
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.
Focal Systems: Boosting Store Performance with an AI Retail Operating System and Real-Time Data
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 with Apache Kafka®
Streaming data integration supports enriched, reusable, canonical streams that can be transformed, shared ,or replicated to different destinations, not just one.
Cloud API Keys vs Resource-Specific API Keys in Confluent Cloud
Learn the difference between cloud API keys and resource-specific API keys in Confluent Cloud, plus best practices for service accounts and production security.
Empowering Customers: The Role of Confluent’s Trust Center
Learn how the Confluent Trust Center helps security and compliance teams accelerate due diligence, simplify audits, and gain confidence through transparency.
How a Tier‑1 Bank Tuned Apache Kafka® for Ultra‑Low‑Latency Trading
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.
Thunai Automates Customer Support with AI Agents and Data Streaming
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.
Starting With Purpose: In-Person Onboarding in a Remote-First World
How Confluent blends remote-first flexibility with in-person onboarding to build connection, purpose, and long-term employee success from day one.
Confluent Cloud Is Your Life (K)Raft Away From Hosted Apache Kafka®
ZooKeeper is going away. Learn why hosted Kafka migrations are accelerating—and how Confluent Cloud simplifies your move with KRaft and KCP.
The Current Status of Current
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.