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Learn how to automate BI with real-time streaming. Explore event-driven workflows that deliver instant insights and close the gap between data and action.

Discover how banks and payment providers use Apache Kafka® streaming to detect and block fraud in real time. Learn patterns for anomaly detection, risk mitigation, and trusted automation.

Discover why microservices architectures thrive with event-driven design and how streaming powers applications that are agile, resilient, and responsive in real time.

Learn how to validate and monitor data quality in real time with Apache Kafka® and Confluent. Prevent bad data from entering pipelines, improve trust in analytics, and power reliable business decisions.

Learn how to design real-time alerts with Apache Kafka® using alerting patterns, anomaly detection, and automated workflows for resilient responses to critical events.

Confluent Cloud is introducing TLS 1.3 for stronger security. It’s available now as an opt-in feature for Dedicated clusters. On April 30, 2026, TLS 1.3 will be enabled by default for all remaining cluster types. Confluent will continue to support TLS 1.2.

Learn how to build real-time dashboards with Apache Kafka® that help your organization go beyond simple data visualization and analysis paralysis to instant analysis and action.

Build real-time apps in minutes. Confluent Cloud on AWS Marketplace offers fully managed Kafka with Flink, Iceberg, 120+ connectors, and enterprise-grade governance—so your team spends less time on ops and more on innovation.

Announcing the release of Apache Kafka 4.1

This blog post outlines the top four challenges of using hyperscaler-hosted Kafka, focusing on high costs, manual maintenance, reliability gaps, and vendor lock-in. It then explains how Confluent Cloud is architected to solve each of these specific problems for customers.

Learn how to use webhooks to integrate your Microsoft Teams tenant with Confluent Cloud and receive service event notifications directly in your inbox or team channels.

Protect sensitive data with Data Contracts using Confluent Schema Registry.

Build event-driven agents on Apache Flink® with Streaming Agents on Confluent Cloud—fresh context, MCP tool calling, real-time embeddings, and enterprise governance.

Confluent Cloud’s Q3 launch delivers cost-effective streaming with new features like Private Network Interface (PNI) for lower networking costs, boosted client connection limits, Streaming Agents for real-time agentic AI, expanded Tableflow functionality with upserts, Cluster Linking on Google Cl...