Confluent Cloud

The dbt-confluent adapter brings dbt's familiar development workflow to Confluent Cloud for Apache Flink, enabling data engineers to build, test, and deploy streaming SQL pipelines with the tools they already know.

Confluent Cloud’s Q2 ‘26 launch makes AI-ready streaming accessible by delivering SQL-based workflows via the dbt adapter for Flink, enhanced developer tooling with managed MCP server and Agent Skills, production-grade AI solutions through Streaming Agents and Real-Time Context Engine, 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.

Confluent's architectural approach to digital sovereignty for real-time streaming, showcasing our deployment spectrum, zero-access guarantees, and open-source foundation

Confluent Tableflow simplifies the process of feeding data lakes and lakehouses by turning Kafka topics directly into analytics-ready Iceberg or Delta Lake tables, eliminating complex traditional ETL stacks leading to 30%–50% lower total ingestion costs.

This blog post introduces KCP integration with Gateway, which automates Kafka client cutover by routing traffic through an auth-translating proxy and orchestrating group-based, offset-safe migrations to Confluent Cloud with just a few CLI commands.

At Confluent, our mission is to provide the world’s most secure and scalable data streaming platform. As cryptographic standards evolve to meet the challenges of the future, we are committed to ensuring your data remains protected against emerging threats—including the eventual development of Cr...

Explore new Confluent Intelligence features: A2A integration, multivariate anomaly detection, vector search for Cosmos DB and S3 Vectors, Private Link, and MCP support.

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 Cloud’s Q1 2026 launch delivers message queuing capabilities via Queues for Kafka, simplified migration with KCP, new AI capabilities with Confluent Intelligence, and enhanced scalability and cost control features like fetch-from-follower and client quotas.

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.

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.

Learn the difference between cloud API keys and resource-specific API keys in Confluent Cloud, plus best practices for service accounts and production security.

ZooKeeper is going away. Learn why hosted Kafka migrations are accelerating—and how Confluent Cloud simplifies your move with KRaft and KCP.