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June 3, 2021
Why developers use Confluent to manage Apache Kafka
May 27, 2021
Confluent Combines Cloud Native and On-Premises Data Streaming Through Single API
May 19, 2021
Confluent Makes Deploying Kafka on Kubernetes Easier
May 12, 2021
Kafka users detail real-time data benefits
April 26, 2021
Quickstart to Apache Kafka Stream Processing with ksqlDB
April 12, 2021
Beyond the Quickstart: Running Apache Kafka as a Service on Kubernetes
April 8, 2021
The 50 best product/design and engineering teams to work for
March 26, 2021
Cory Scott joins Confluent as first CISO
March 10, 2021
How data streaming can address the returns culture in retail and boost profits
March 1, 2021
Stephanie Buscemi Goes Further Into The Cloud As Confluent’s New Chief Marketing Officer
February 16, 2021
Confluent Premium Connector Integrates Oracle and Kafka
February 16, 2021
Kafka backer Confluent introduces Premium Connector for Oracle Database
February 2, 2021
Confluent’s Kafka Platform Becomes an Integrated Service for Azure
January 29, 2021
Confluent strengthens strategic alliance with Microsoft
January 29, 2021
Confluent Announces Strategic Alliance with Microsoft
January 5, 2021
Why event streaming is key to your hybrid cloud strategy
November 26, 2020
IBM and Confluent partnership will leverage event streaming
November 24, 2020
Big Blue Taps Into Streaming Data with Confluent Connection
November 16, 2020
Beyond the Database, and beyond the Stream Processor: What's the Next Step for Data Management?
November 11, 2020
Confluent ‘Proactive Support’ Aims to Speed Resolution of Kafka Streaming Data Issues
November 10, 2020
Confluent Moves to Boost Kafka Reliability
November 8, 2020
Digitalisation World Q&A on Kafka
November 5, 2020
The Rise of the Event Streaming Database
November 5, 2020
Humana uses Azure and Kafka to make healthcare less frustrating for doctors and patients
October 18, 2020
2020 Datanami Readers’ Choice Awards
September 22, 2020
LinkedIn Top Startups 2020: The 50 U.S. companies on the rise
September 22, 2020
Bosch Power Tools' metamorphosis into a data company with Kafka
September 16, 2020
CEO Of $4.5 Billion Confluent: The Future Of Open Source Will Be Bought, Not Built
September 3, 2020
The Biggest User Of Software, Is Software
August 27, 2020
Confluent Platform 6.0 Designed to Create a Global Mesh of Kafka
August 26, 2020
Confluent Platform 6 brings cluster linking to Apache Kafka
August 24, 2020
Confluent Platform 6.0 ushers in cluster linking for Apache Kafka
August 21, 2020
Event Stream Processing: How Banks Can Overcome SQL and NoSQL Related Obstacles with Apache Kafka
July 28, 2020
Infinite Storage & Retention for Apache Kafka in Confluent Cloud
July 26, 2020
Meet the 54 most valuable enterprise tech startups, worth as much as $216 billion collectively
July 23, 2020
Best Companies for Professional Development 2020
July 20, 2020
Emerging Big Data Vendors To Know In 2020
July 20, 2020
Building a cloud roadmap: top tips on best practice
July 17, 2020
Index OnAir: The Evolution and Future of Open Source
July 1, 2020
Confluent announces "Infinite Kafka" release
July 1, 2020
Big data has eaten the world. Now what?
June 25, 2020
What COVID-19 has taught banks about moving to the Cloud
June 23, 2020
Confluent Hires Google Cloud CFO Tomlinson; Expected IPO Looms
June 22, 2020
Google Cloud finance chief leaves to become CFO of Confluent as software start-up heads for public market
June 3, 2020
Delivering New, Real-time Customer Experiences
June 1, 2020
The 2020SD Times 100: 'Best in Show' in Software Development
May 24, 2020
As Facebook, Twitter and others say OK to permanent remote work, these 6 startups building tools to work outside the office are Silicon Valley's new darlings
May 13, 2020
Confluent launches project to transform Kafka-based event streaming following funding boost
May 11, 2020
He Left His High-Paying Job At LinkedIn And Then Built A $4.5 Billion Business In A Niche You’ve Never Heard Of
May 6, 2020
Confluent improves Kafka event streaming in the cloud
May 6, 2020
The Best Big Data Companies To Work For Based On Glassdoor
May 6, 2020
Confluent introduces scale on demand for Apache Kafka cloud customers
May 4, 2020
Commercial open source software startups will thrive during the coronavirus crisis, VCs say. Here are 31 they believe are poised for success
April 28, 2020
The Coolest Data Management And Integration Tool Companies Of The 2020 Big Data 100
April 27, 2020
Apache Kafka 2.5: Latest Release Brings Host of Welcome Updates
April 25, 2020
KSQL Now Available on Confluent Cloud
April 22, 2020
More investment streams in for Confluent
April 22, 2020
Startup Confluent Valued at $4.5 Billion After New Funding
April 21, 2020
Confluent lands $250M in late-stage funding, raising its valuation to $4.5 billion
April 21, 2020
Confluent lands another big round with $250M Series E on $4.5B valuation
April 21, 2020
Confluent draws $250 million in Series E funding
April 21, 2020
Confluent Uses Deep Pockets to Extend Kafka
April 6, 2020
Applications: Combining the old with the new
March 16, 2020
Confluent: Event streaming moves monoliths to microservices
March 6, 2020
Confluent Offers Apache Kafka as a Service on the Azure Marketplace
March 4, 2020
Data and Analytics – how can event streaming help
February 20, 2020
Integrating data is getting harder, but also more important
February 5, 2020
InfoWorld’s 2020 Technology of the Year Award winners
January 31, 2020
Experience Using Event Streams, Kafka and the Confluent Platform at Deutsche Bahn
January 23, 2020
Confluent Boosts Streaming Event Platform with Security Capabilities
January 22, 2020
Top Four Features in Confluent Platform 5.4
January 22, 2020
New Confluent Platform release boosts event streaming quality
December 20, 2019
Apache Kafka version 2.4 improves streaming data performance
December 12, 2019
The 25 major companies with the most satisfied employees of 2019
December 11, 2019
The 10 Hottest New Big Data Technologies Of 2019
December 11, 2019
These were the 15 best CEOs of 2019
December 11, 2019
Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Google's Sundar Pichai, fall out of top-10 in annual ranking of CEOs
December 10, 2019
The Best Companies For Corporate Culture In 2019
December 10, 2019
Confluent: Events provide an 'in-built primitive' for continuous coding
December 10, 2019
Gwen Shapira on the Power of Event-Driven Architecture
December 10, 2019
What is Apache Kafka? A Simple Explainer
December 10, 2019
Event streaming - a vehicle for IT modernisation
November 27, 2019
Jay Kreps: Events, Event Streams and Their Importance in a Digital Business
November 26, 2019
See you on the other side, Egon: Confluent invites relational devs to dip toe into Kafka's streams with ksqlDB
November 25, 2019
Will Users Tune Into ‘Application Playlists’ In Future?
November 21, 2019
Open-source project ksqlDB wants to bring event stream processing to the mainstream
November 21, 2019
Confluent introduces ksqlDB event streaming database
November 20, 2019
Confluent Reveals ksqlDB, a Streaming Database Built on Kafka
October 24, 2019
Ticketmaster tackles tech debt with streaming data platform
October 23, 2019
Co-founder of a multi-billion dollar company says a lesson from her dad was ‘the single biggest influence’ on her career
October 21, 2019
Real-Time Applications, Cloud Computing Growing: Bloomberg CIO Exchange
October 17, 2019
Marie Claire's 7th Annual New Guard
October 16, 2019
Harnessing the Power of the Cloud: Bloomberg’s CIO Exchange
October 14, 2019
Co-founder of a multibillion-dollar company: Here’s how to get ahead in your career
October 11, 2019
Ticketmaster unifies DevOps monitoring with Confluent Kafka
October 8, 2019
Get to Know the Female Entrepreneurs Who Are Reshaping the Business World
October 7, 2019
Event streaming: The technology you use every day, but may have never heard of
September 30, 2019
Confluent adds free Kafka real-time streaming data cloud service
September 30, 2019
Higher Abstractions, Lower Complexity in Kafka’s Future
September 18, 2019
Exclusive: Software unicorn Confluent expands in Silicon Valley with new global HQ in Mountain View
September 11, 2019
NASDAQ Cloud 100 Report with Jay Kreps, CEO of Confluent
September 11, 2019
A Truck Tracker, A Coder Toolbox, And A Unicorn From Down Under: Inside This Year’s Cloud 100
September 9, 2019
Data Ingestion: Just Because You Can, Doesn’t Mean You Should
September 5, 2019
These are the 28 hottest tech startups to work at, according to LinkedIn
September 4, 2019
Top Startups To Work For In 2019 According To LinkedIn
August 27, 2019
10 Apache Kafka best practices for data management pros
August 12, 2019
How Nationwide plans to attract the best tech talent to its new London hub
July 26, 2019
Palo Alto female founder intent on bringing diversity to leadership positions, sharing lesson from her own billion dollar company
July 22, 2019
Emerging Big Data Vendors To Know In 2019
July 11, 2019
Trying to make enterprise software fun
July 9, 2019
C-suite career advice: Neha Narkhede, Confluent
June 26, 2019
How to Make Kafka Cloud Native
June 18, 2019
Confluent CEO Jay Kreps - Top CEOs 2019 Employees' Choice
May 22, 2019
CxO of the Week: Neha Narkhede, CEO and Co-Founder of Confluent
May 21, 2019
Kai Waehner explains why you need Kafka
May 20, 2019
What's behind the ascendency of enterprise open source?
May 20, 2019
How Nationwide's new streaming platform enables it to compete with the challenger banks
May 17, 2019
The Best Big Data Companies And CEOs To Work For In 2019 Based On Glassdoor
May 15, 2019
Confluent makes Apache Kafka cloud-native
May 14, 2019
Confluent says it has the first cloud-native Kafka streaming platform
May 1, 2019
The Coolest Big Data Management And Integration Software Of The 2019 Big Data 100
April 15, 2019
Kafka at center of new event processing infrastructure
April 10, 2019
Confluent and Google Cloud announce strategic partnership for workload streaming
April 10, 2019
The 6 most important announcements from Google Cloud Next 2019
April 2, 2019
Confluent's Kafka distro adds dev, management and hybrid cloud capabilities
March 12, 2019
Neha Narkhede: Open Source Isn’t A Business Model, It's A Distribution Strategy
February 28, 2019
The Importance of Event-First Thinking
January 23, 2019
Open-source leader Confluent raises $125M on $2.5B valuation
January 23, 2019
Open-Source Unicorn: Confluent Reaches $2.5 Billion Valuation Three Years After Hiring Its First Sales Rep
October 19, 2018
Pretty low level, pretty big deal: Apache Kafka and Confluent Open Source go mainstream
October 17, 2018
Confluent Platform 5.0 Supports LDAP Authorization and MQTT Proxy for IoT Integration
September 18, 2018
Want to Really Empower Women? Make Sure They Have This 1 Thing
September 13, 2018
The Cloud 100
September 12, 2018
2018 Datanami Readers’ & Editors’ Choice Awards
September 12, 2018
The Founders Index: A rising generation of female entrepreneurs in the US
September 7, 2018
Confluent Targets IBM, Oracle In $27B Middleware Market
September 7, 2018
Are you really building a serverless system?
September 7, 2018
Democratizing Stream Processing with Apache Kafka® and KSQL - Part 2
August 7, 2018
Confluent Platform 5.0 aims to mainstream Kafka streaming
August 7, 2018
Confluent Streaming Data: Product Overview and Analysis
August 2, 2018
Confluent Strengthens IoT Integration for Enterprise Kafka
August 1, 2018
Confluent 5.0 focuses on securing and managing infrastructure
July 31, 2018
Confluent release adds enterprise, developer, IoT savvy to Apache Kafka
July 14, 2018
Kafka is establishing its toehold
July 6, 2018
Change data capture as a gateway to a streaming platform
July 2, 2018
Is Event Streaming the new Big Thing for Finance?
June 30, 2018
This Week in Numbers: Apache Kafka’s Metamorphosis
June 15, 2018
Democratizing Stream Processing with Apache Kafka and KSQL
May 22, 2018
Confluent brings fully-managed Kafka to the Google Cloud Platform
May 22, 2018
Confluent, Google Team Up to Provide Streaming Data Platform
May 3, 2018
Want Kafka on Kubernetes? Confluent Has It Made
April 23, 2018
Busting event-driven myths
April 18, 2018
Ep. 53: Jay Kreps talks cloud-native, Kafka competitors and a resurgence of enterprise IT innovation
March 26, 2018
On Apache Kafka®. Q&A with Gwen Shapira
March 7, 2018
Confluent Adds KSQL Support to Kafka Platform
February 28, 2018
Big, fast, easy data with KSQL
February 26, 2018
Weighing Open Source’s Worth for the Future of Big Data
November 28, 2017
Confluent Cloud Uses Apache Kafka for Streaming Data as a Service
November 22, 2017
The current state of Apache Kafka
November 15, 2017
10 hot startups targeting today’s key IT initiatives
November 3, 2017
Apache Kafka 1.0 Released Exactly Once
October 26, 2017
Confluent Releases KSQL, a Distributed Streaming SQL Engine for Apache Kafka
October 21, 2017
Technista Talk: Neha Narkhede - LinkedIn Employee To Confluent Boss
October 19, 2017
Confluent CTO Neha Narkhede on Kafka's role in modern applications
October 18, 2017
Apache Kafka and the four challenges of production machine learning systems
September 27, 2017
Session with Neha Narkhede
September 25, 2017
What Are Microservices? - Part 2: An Interview With Confluent CEO Jay Kreps
September 25, 2017
What Are Microservices? - Part 1: An Interview With Matt Miller Of Sequoia
August 31, 2017
Confluent's Kafka data-streaming framework gets 'SQL-ized'
August 29, 2017
Confluent Brings SQL Querying to Kafka Streaming Data
August 28, 2017
Kafka Gets Streaming SQL Engine, KSQL
August 28, 2017
Kafka gets SQL with KSQL
August 25, 2017
Apache Kafka gets ‘exactly-once’ message delivery – and that’s a big deal
August 16, 2017
MIT Tech Review: 35 Innovators Under 35
August 15, 2017
How Kafka Helped Rabobank Modernize Alerting System
July 31, 2017
Apache Kafka Survey Reveals Growing Importance of Streaming Data
July 25, 2017
Former LinkedIn tech lead now charts Kafka streaming wave at Confluent
July 12, 2017
40 Under 40: Jay Kreps of Confluent
July 11, 2017
Forbes Cloud 100
July 5, 2017
The 18 hottest enterprise startups of 2017
July 3, 2017
A Peek Inside Kafka’s New ‘Exactly Once’ Feature
June 30, 2017
Confluent achieves Holy Grail of ‘exactly once’ delivery on Kafka messaging service
June 20, 2017
Kafka: The story so far
May 31, 2017
How Pandora Uses Kafka
May 12, 2017
Startup Confluent makes Kafka cloud play to ease streaming deployment
May 8, 2017
Apache Kafka Startup Confluent Launches A Cloud Service With Bold Words For AWS
May 7, 2017
The Continued Rise of Apache Kafka
May 5, 2017
Kafka ‘Massively Simplifies’ Data Infrastructure, Report Says
May 1, 2017
2017 Big Data 100: 35 Coolest Data Management And Integration Vendors
April 20, 2017
Kafka channels the big data firehose
April 7, 2017
Jay Kreps on the evolution of Kafka and the need for simplicity in data infrastructure
March 29, 2017
People to Watch 2017
March 29, 2017
20 B2B Technologies To Try In 2017
March 24, 2017
Confluent launches London HQ to serve growing demand for Apache Kafka real-time data streaming
March 8, 2017
Confluent’s $50M and the bright future for open source
March 8, 2017
“Engineers love a good challenge”: Confluent’s Jay Kreps on attracting talent
March 7, 2017
Streaming data juggernaut Confluent announces $50M in Series C funding
March 7, 2017
Confluent raises $50M to continue growing commercial arm of Apache Kafka
March 7, 2017
How Kafka Redefined Data Processing for the Streaming Age
March 7, 2017
Data streaming startup Confluent secures $50M round backed by Sequoia
March 7, 2017
Confluent raises $50 million led by Sequoia Capital
March 7, 2017
These former LinkedIn engineers just raised another $50 million to help spread the software they invented
February 9, 2017
Exactly Once: Why It’s Such a Big Deal for Apache Kafka
February 3, 2017
An inside look at why Apache Kafka adoption is exploding
January 25, 2017
InfoWorld's 2017 Technology of the Year Award winners
December 29, 2016
Delta-V Awards - 2016 Edition - The Top Five
December 21, 2016
3 Innovative Startups Making Big Data Manageable for Everyone
December 16, 2016
The 10 Coolest Startups Of 2016
December 13, 2016
A New Day for Streaming Data, with Kafka and Confluent
December 7, 2016
Interview: Gwen Shapira, System Architect at Confluent
December 7, 2016
Trend-Setting Products for 2017
November 30, 2016
Video: 3 considerations IT must make before moving to the cloud
November 30, 2016
Video: The 3 trends that are defining next-gen big data deployments
October 19, 2016
How Apache Kafka is powering a real-time data revolution
October 14, 2016
Kafka Event Sourcing with Neha Narkhede
October 7, 2016
Kafka Streams with Jay Kreps
October 5, 2016
Confluent Announces Kafka for the Enterprise with Multi-Datacenter Replication
September 28, 2016
Commercial Kafka Distro Gets Global Smarts
September 28, 2016
Fresh Streaming Data: Get It While It’s Hot
September 28, 2016
Apache Kafka Grabs Big Data Spotlight
September 28, 2016
Confluent retools Kafka for traditional enterprises
September 27, 2016
25 Data Management Vendors Worth Watching
August 15, 2016
Big Data Startup Confluent Ratchets Up Channel Efforts With New Program, Executive Hires
July 21, 2016
Startup CFO’s Mantra: People First, Finance Second
July 20, 2016
25 Emerging Vendors You Need To Know About
July 15, 2016
The 10 Coolest Big Data Products Of 2016
July 13, 2016
Big Data At Ancestry.com: Why Data Stewardship And Open Source Matter So Much
July 7, 2016
Investments in Fast Data Analytics Surge
June 19, 2016
Neha Narkhede: Large-Scale Stream Processing with Apache Kafka
June 9, 2016
Confluent Provides Updates to Apache Kafka Streaming Data Platform
June 6, 2016
Kafka Streaming Gets a New Twist
June 3, 2016
Kafka streaming gets a new twist
June 3, 2016
Confluent Platform 3.0 Supports Kafka Streams for Real-Time Data Processing
May 27, 2016
Confluent Boosts its Streaming Data Solution
May 26, 2016
Confluent Platform 3 Brings New Kafka, Control Center
May 25, 2016
Apache Kafka Stars in Two New Open Source Big Data Offerings
May 24, 2016
Kafka Creators Tackle Consistency Problem in Data Pipelines
May 24, 2016
Confluent Platform 3.0 Now Available
May 24, 2016
Streaming data, simplified: Kafka Streams reaches GA
May 16, 2016
Neha Narkhede is one of Fast Company's Most Creative People in Business in 2016
May 2, 2016
2016 Big Data 100: 30 Coolest Data Management Vendors
April 28, 2016
Kafka Summit: Big Data In Real-Time Gains Momentum
April 27, 2016
Kafka Summit Highlights Lack of Bugs
April 27, 2016
Apache Kafka Gains Traction Among Enterprise Users
April 27, 2016
Confluent to Offer Classes on How to Run Kafka Correctly
April 26, 2016
Open Source Big Data Tool Kafka Advances in Enterprise
April 18, 2016
Hadoop, Kafka Creators Big on Big Data Streaming Analytics
April 11, 2016
12 Inspiring Women In Data Science, Big Data
April 7, 2016
Data in the emerging world of stream processing
April 6, 2016
The Real-Time Rise of Apache Kafka
April 5, 2016
Reporter’s Notebook: 6 Key Takeaways from Strata + Hadoop World
March 31, 2016
Kafka is the New Standard in Big Data Messaging
March 28, 2016
People to Watch 2016
March 26, 2016
Distributed Stream Processing with Apache Kafka
March 14, 2016
Microservices for a Streaming World
March 14, 2016
Kafka Gets a Stream-Processing Makeover
March 10, 2016
The Value of Real Time Data Processing
February 19, 2016
Real-time Data Pipelines with Kafka Connect
February 4, 2016
The Rise and Rise of Apache Kafka
January 20, 2016
InfoWorld's 2016 Technology of the Year Award Winners
January 12, 2016
How Apache Kafka is Fundamentally Changing the Streaming of Big Data
December 25, 2015
The 53 Startups That Will Be Huge in 2016, According to Venture Capitalists
December 11, 2015
Confluent's Platform Receives Updated Apache Kafka 0.9 Core
December 11, 2015
Confluent Unveils Next Generation of Apache Kafka as Enterprise Adoption Soars
December 11, 2015
Confluent 2.0 Brings New Kafka Features to the Enterprise
December 10, 2015
Confluent Updates Open Source, Kafka-Based Platform for Big Data Streaming
December 9, 2015
Confluent's Apache Kafka Gets Security, Real-Time Messaging Updates
December 8, 2015
Confluent Gives Kafka More Enterprise Chops
December 8, 2015
Confluent’s Apache Kafka Distro Gets a Lot More Secure
November 11, 2015
Piping hot: Why is Apache Kafka catching on?
October 4, 2015
Big data dump: Using information 'like a car engine'
October 2, 2015
Making big data personal
September 16, 2015
Bossie Awards 2015: The best open source big data tools
August 19, 2015
Meet Confluent, The Big-Data Startup That Has Silicon Valley Buzzing
August 19, 2015
3 Reasons Why Confluent's Buzzy Apache Kafka Software Was Able To Take Off At LinkedIn
July 8, 2015
Confluent, the startup from the creators of Apache Kafka, raises $24M
July 8, 2015
Confluent Raises $24 Million to Commercialize Kafka
July 8, 2015
Confluent Closes $24M Series B Round For Its Apache Kafka-Based Stream Data Platform
July 8, 2015
This big data startup with roots from LinkedIn just raised millions of dollars
July 8, 2015
Why Apache Kafka firm Confluent thinks IoT and streaming will gain from $24m injection
July 8, 2015
The Real-Time Future of Data According to Jay Kreps
July 8, 2015
Kafka creators raise $24 million to move into stream processing
July 8, 2015
Confluent Raises $24 Million For Data 'Streams' Powering LinkedIn, Netflix And Uber
July 8, 2015
Confluent raises $24 million in Series B funding
July 8, 2015
Confluent closes $24 million Series B funding round

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