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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.
How to Find, Share, and Organize Your Data Streams with Stream Catalog
In a modern data stack, being able to discover, understand, organize and reuse data is key to obtaining the most value from your data. These requirements have led to the […]
Building Kafka Storage That’s 10x More Scalable and Performant
As part of our series walking through how we built Confluent Cloud into a 10x better Apache Kafka® service, we explored how Confluent Cloud uses Intelligent Storage to achieve 10x […]
Confluent India’s Head of HR: “Working here has helped me grow both professionally and personally as a woman in tech”
An interview with Nisha Natarajan, Human Resources Manager, India When Nisha joined Confluent India’s team as Workplace Manager in December 2019 there were fewer than ten people in the office […]
Introducing the Data Streaming Awards: Time to Nominate!
We are delighted to announce the inaugural Data Streaming Awards, where winners will be announced at Current 2022! Here, a panel of judges from across the data streaming industry will […]
How streaming data and a lakehouse paradigm can help manage risk in volatile trading markets
As we are witnessing, global capital markets are subject to a number of different forces that can impact market and portfolio volatility and risk. For financial services firms, the challenge […]
How to Visualize Your Apache Kafka Data the Easy Way with Stream Lineage
Understanding how data flows and is transformed across the different layers of an organization’s application and data stack is one of the most challenging governance problems companies are facing today. […]
How to Keep Bad Data Out of Apache Kafka with Stream Quality
Dealing with garbage in, garbage out (GIGO) has tormented data teams for generations. Analytics and decision making have suffered from this “garbage”. The new era of machine learning and being […]
Confluent wins the 2022 Microsoft Commercial Marketplace Partner of the Year Award
I’m thrilled to share that earlier this week, Microsoft announced its 2022 Partner of the Year Award winners, and Confluent won Microsoft’s Commercial Marketplace Partner of the Year Award (Global). […]
Careers in Development: What It’s Like to Work as a Software Engineer in Confluent’s India Team
An interview with Keerthana Srikanth, Confluent Software Engineer A computer science graduate from the prestigious Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani, 23-year-old Keerthana joined Confluent’s Observability Team following a […]
Managing Hybrid Cloud Data with Cloud-Native Kubernetes APIs
Confluent for Kubernetes (CFK) has added declarative API support for Cluster Linking, allowing you to connect public and private cloud environments with a declarative API. Confluent for Kubernetes provides a […]
Applying Data Pipeline Principles in Practice: Exploring the Kafka Summit Keynote Demo
Real-time data streaming necessitates a new way to think about modern data system design. In the keynote at Kafka Summit London 2022, Confluent CEO Jay Kreps described five principles of […]
Autonomous Networks — The Telco and Media Growth Engine
Why are autonomous networks a critical part of all communication service providers’ (CSPs) infrastructure? A recurring issue for CSPs is the integration of legacy operations support services (OSS) systems. In […]
Introducing the Current 2022 Program Committee
The Call for Papers for Current 2022: The Next Generation of Kafka Summit is in full swing, with speakers from around the data streaming world putting their best talks forward […]
Willie Osborn on Creating a Culture of SDR Success
When Willie Osborn joined Confluent three years ago, it was to spend his days thinking about growth—but not just in terms of revenue. Below, Willie explains why he believes developing […]