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Six innovations lead this release, fulfilling DSP’s promise as the complete, performant, and open foundation a Streamhouse needs: Lightning Tables, Managed Model Inference, Schema Registry Updates, Multi-tenancy for Confluent Private Cloud (CPC), Confluent Gateway, and Tableflow updates.

The Streamhouse sits between the operational and analytical estates, addressing the inefficiencies inherent in each. In this post, we will compare the Streamhouse to the lakehouse: what each one does, where they differ and how they complement each other.

To make accurate decisions at machine speed, we need to maintain the state of the business as it changes. It needs to be always current, decentralized across systems that already run the business, and dependable for software to act on it. The architecture that makes this possible is the Streamhouse.

Graphiant, Confluent's 2027 Data Streaming Startup of the Year for the Americas, is transforming enterprise networking. Discover how it uses Apache Kafka on Confluent Cloud to power real-time network observability, streaming analytics, and customer-facing dashboards.

The Apache Software Foundation is proud to announce the release of Apache Kafka® 4.4.0. With 25 KIPs and 963 commits since 4.3.0, this release introduces many new features, improvements and bug fixes to all the components. For a full list of changes, be sure to check the release notes.

Many modernization discussions begin with infrastructure economics. But a new Forrester Total Economic Impact™ study suggests leaders should also evaluate engineering capacity, delivery speed, governance consistency and operational efficiency.

Confluent Cloud has secured OSPAR attestation, giving Singapore's financial institutions independently verified assurance for outsourced data streaming workloads. Here's what OSPAR is, why it matters, and how Confluent helps customers put it to use.

A guide to the Third-Party Risk Assessments available in the Confluent Trust Center and how customers can leverage the right one for their needs.

New industry initiative establishes an open category for data architectures that power real-time applications and AI agents

Learn how to migrate to Confluent Cloud in hours using Confluent’s open source Kafka Copy Paste tool. Get an in-depth introduction to the KCP tool and a walk-through of the four steps of migrating from MSK to Confluent Cloud using the tool.

Confluent built automated investigator uniting a central triage coordinator, specialized evidence agents, an adversarial evaluator, and a self-learning knowledge base. By treating alerts as a continuous stream, we analyzed 100% of volume and scaled triage throughput.

Hemut is building an AI-native operating system for trucking. Using Confluent Cloud, its platform connects trucks, back-office systems, and AI agents through real-time data, creating an automated “Internet of Freight” that has already processed more than 286 million events.

Accelerate enterprise streaming and AI workloads with new product updates across Kora, connectors, Flink, Tableflow, AI anomaly detection and forecasting, security enhancements, and WarpStream.

Explore new AI features and AI tools: support for IBM Granite Time Series models and TimesFM models (EA), enhanced Real-Time Context Engine experience, new Agent Skills, Confluent Assistant