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May 11, 2020He 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, 2020The Best Big Data Companies To Work For Based On Glassdoor
May 6, 2020Confluent improves Kafka event streaming in the cloud
May 6, 2020Confluent introduces scale on demand for Apache Kafka cloud customers
May 4, 2020Commercial open source software startups will thrive during the coronavirus crisis, VCs say. Here are 31 they believe are poised for success
April 28, 2020The Coolest Data Management And Integration Tool Companies Of The 2020 Big Data 100
April 27, 2020Apache Kafka 2.5: Latest Release Brings Host of Welcome Updates
April 25, 2020KSQL Now Available on Confluent Cloud
April 22, 2020More investment streams in for Confluent
April 22, 2020Startup Confluent Valued at $4.5 Billion After New Funding
April 21, 2020Confluent lands $250M in late-stage funding, raising its valuation to $4.5 billion
April 21, 2020Confluent Uses Deep Pockets to Extend Kafka
April 21, 2020Confluent draws $250 million in Series E funding
April 21, 2020Confluent lands another big round with $250M Series E on $4.5B valuation
April 6, 2020Applications: Combining the old with the new
March 16, 2020Confluent: Event streaming moves monoliths to microservices
March 6, 2020Confluent Offers Apache Kafka as a Service on the Azure Marketplace
March 4, 2020Data and Analytics – how can event streaming help
February 20, 2020Integrating data is getting harder, but also more important
February 5, 2020InfoWorld’s 2020 Technology of the Year Award winners
January 31, 2020Experience Using Event Streams, Kafka and the Confluent Platform at Deutsche Bahn
January 23, 2020Confluent Boosts Streaming Event Platform with Security Capabilities
January 22, 2020Top Four Features in Confluent Platform 5.4
January 22, 2020New Confluent Platform release boosts event streaming quality
December 20, 2019Apache Kafka version 2.4 improves streaming data performance
December 12, 2019The 25 major companies with the most satisfied employees of 2019
December 11, 2019The 10 Hottest New Big Data Technologies Of 2019
December 11, 2019Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Google's Sundar Pichai, fall out of top-10 in annual ranking of CEOs
December 11, 2019These were the 15 best CEOs of 2019
December 10, 2019The Best Companies For Corporate Culture In 2019
December 10, 2019Gwen Shapira on the Power of Event-Driven Architecture
December 10, 2019What is Apache Kafka? A Simple Explainer
December 10, 2019Confluent: Events provide an 'in-built primitive' for continuous coding
December 10, 2019Event streaming - a vehicle for IT modernisation
November 27, 2019Jay Kreps: Events, Event Streams and Their Importance in a Digital Business
November 26, 2019See you on the other side, Egon: Confluent invites relational devs to dip toe into Kafka's streams with ksqlDB
November 25, 2019Will Users Tune Into ‘Application Playlists’ In Future?
November 21, 2019Open-source project ksqlDB wants to bring event stream processing to the mainstream
November 21, 2019Confluent introduces ksqlDB event streaming database
November 20, 2019Confluent Reveals ksqlDB, a Streaming Database Built on Kafka
October 24, 2019Ticketmaster tackles tech debt with streaming data platform
October 23, 2019Co-founder of a multi-billion dollar company says a lesson from her dad was ‘the single biggest influence’ on her career
October 21, 2019Real-Time Applications, Cloud Computing Growing: Bloomberg CIO Exchange
October 17, 2019Marie Claire's 7th Annual New Guard
October 16, 2019Harnessing the Power of the Cloud: Bloomberg’s CIO Exchange
October 14, 2019Co-founder of a multibillion-dollar company: Here’s how to get ahead in your career
October 11, 2019Ticketmaster unifies DevOps monitoring with Confluent Kafka
October 8, 2019Get to Know the Female Entrepreneurs Who Are Reshaping the Business World
October 7, 2019Event streaming: The technology you use every day, but may have never heard of
September 30, 2019Higher Abstractions, Lower Complexity in Kafka’s Future
September 30, 2019Confluent adds free Kafka real-time streaming data cloud service
September 18, 2019Exclusive: Software unicorn Confluent expands in Silicon Valley with new global HQ in Mountain View
September 11, 2019NASDAQ Cloud 100 Report with Jay Kreps, CEO of Confluent
September 11, 2019A Truck Tracker, A Coder Toolbox, And A Unicorn From Down Under: Inside This Year’s Cloud 100
September 9, 2019Data Ingestion: Just Because You Can, Doesn’t Mean You Should
September 5, 2019These are the 28 hottest tech startups to work at, according to LinkedIn
September 4, 2019Top Startups To Work For In 2019 According To LinkedIn
August 27, 201910 Apache Kafka best practices for data management pros
August 12, 2019How Nationwide plans to attract the best tech talent to its new London hub
July 26, 2019Palo Alto female founder intent on bringing diversity to leadership positions, sharing lesson from her own billion dollar company
July 22, 2019Emerging Big Data Vendors To Know In 2019
July 11, 2019Trying to make enterprise software fun
July 9, 2019C-suite career advice: Neha Narkhede, Confluent
June 26, 2019How to Make Kafka Cloud Native
June 18, 2019Confluent CEO Jay Kreps - Top CEOs 2019 Employees' Choice
May 22, 2019CxO of the Week: Neha Narkhede, CEO and Co-Founder of Confluent
May 21, 2019Kai Waehner explains why you need Kafka
May 20, 2019 What's behind the ascendency of enterprise open source?
May 20, 2019How Nationwide's new streaming platform enables it to compete with the challenger banks
May 17, 2019The Best Big Data Companies And CEOs To Work For In 2019 Based On Glassdoor
May 15, 2019Confluent makes Apache Kafka cloud-native
May 14, 2019Confluent says it has the first cloud-native Kafka streaming platform
May 1, 2019The Coolest Big Data Management And Integration Software Of The 2019 Big Data 100
April 15, 2019Kafka at center of new event processing infrastructure
April 10, 2019The 6 most important announcements from Google Cloud Next 2019
April 10, 2019Confluent and Google Cloud announce strategic partnership for workload streaming
April 2, 2019Confluent's Kafka distro adds dev, management and hybrid cloud capabilities
March 12, 2019Neha Narkhede: Open Source Isn’t A Business Model, It's A Distribution Strategy
February 28, 2019The Importance of Event-First Thinking
January 23, 2019 Open-source leader Confluent raises $125M on $2.5B valuation
January 23, 2019Open-Source Unicorn: Confluent Reaches $2.5 Billion Valuation Three Years After Hiring Its First Sales Rep
October 19, 2018Pretty low level, pretty big deal: Apache Kafka and Confluent Open Source go mainstream
October 17, 2018Confluent Platform 5.0 Supports LDAP Authorization and MQTT Proxy for IoT Integration
September 18, 2018Want to Really Empower Women? Make Sure They Have This 1 Thing
September 13, 2018The Cloud 100
September 12, 20182018 Datanami Readers’ & Editors’ Choice Awards
September 12, 2018The Founders Index: A rising generation of female entrepreneurs in the US
September 7, 2018Are you really building a serverless system?
September 7, 2018Democratizing Stream Processing with Apache Kafka® and KSQL - Part 2
September 7, 2018Confluent Targets IBM, Oracle In $27B Middleware Market
August 7, 2018Confluent Platform 5.0 aims to mainstream Kafka streaming
August 7, 2018Confluent Streaming Data: Product Overview and Analysis
August 2, 2018Confluent Strengthens IoT Integration for Enterprise Kafka
August 1, 2018Confluent 5.0 focuses on securing and managing infrastructure
July 31, 2018Confluent release adds enterprise, developer, IoT savvy to Apache Kafka
July 14, 2018Kafka is establishing its toehold
July 6, 2018Change data capture as a gateway to a streaming platform
July 2, 2018Is Event Streaming the new Big Thing for Finance?
June 30, 2018This Week in Numbers: Apache Kafka’s Metamorphosis
June 15, 2018Democratizing Stream Processing with Apache Kafka and KSQL
May 22, 2018Confluent, Google Team Up to Provide Streaming Data Platform
May 22, 2018Confluent brings fully-managed Kafka to the Google Cloud Platform
May 3, 2018Want Kafka on Kubernetes? Confluent Has It Made
April 23, 2018Busting event-driven myths
April 18, 2018Ep. 53: Jay Kreps talks cloud-native, Kafka competitors and a resurgence of enterprise IT innovation
March 26, 2018On Apache Kafka®. Q&A with Gwen Shapira
March 7, 2018Confluent Adds KSQL Support to Kafka Platform
February 28, 2018Big, fast, easy data with KSQL
February 26, 2018Weighing Open Source’s Worth for the Future of Big Data
November 28, 2017Confluent Cloud Uses Apache Kafka for Streaming Data as a Service
November 22, 2017The current state of Apache Kafka
November 15, 201710 hot startups targeting today’s key IT initiatives
November 3, 2017Apache Kafka 1.0 Released Exactly Once
October 26, 2017Confluent Releases KSQL, a Distributed Streaming SQL Engine for Apache Kafka
October 21, 2017Technista Talk: Neha Narkhede - LinkedIn Employee To Confluent Boss
October 19, 2017Confluent CTO Neha Narkhede on Kafka's role in modern applications
October 18, 2017Apache Kafka and the four challenges of production machine learning systems
September 27, 2017Session with Neha Narkhede
September 25, 2017What Are Microservices? - Part 1: An Interview With Matt Miller Of Sequoia
September 25, 2017What Are Microservices? - Part 2: An Interview With Confluent CEO Jay Kreps
August 31, 2017Confluent's Kafka data-streaming framework gets 'SQL-ized'
August 29, 2017Confluent Brings SQL Querying to Kafka Streaming Data
August 28, 2017Kafka Gets Streaming SQL Engine, KSQL
August 28, 2017Kafka gets SQL with KSQL
August 25, 2017Apache Kafka gets ‘exactly-once’ message delivery – and that’s a big deal
August 16, 2017MIT Tech Review: 35 Innovators Under 35
August 15, 2017How Kafka Helped Rabobank Modernize Alerting System
July 31, 2017Apache Kafka Survey Reveals Growing Importance of Streaming Data
July 25, 2017Former LinkedIn tech lead now charts Kafka streaming wave at Confluent
July 12, 201740 Under 40: Jay Kreps of Confluent
July 11, 2017Forbes Cloud 100
July 5, 2017The 18 hottest enterprise startups of 2017
July 3, 2017A Peek Inside Kafka’s New ‘Exactly Once’ Feature
June 30, 2017Confluent achieves Holy Grail of ‘exactly once’ delivery on Kafka messaging service
June 20, 2017Kafka: The story so far
May 31, 2017How Pandora Uses Kafka
May 12, 2017Startup Confluent makes Kafka cloud play to ease streaming deployment
May 8, 2017Apache Kafka Startup Confluent Launches A Cloud Service With Bold Words For AWS
May 7, 2017The Continued Rise of Apache Kafka
May 5, 2017Kafka ‘Massively Simplifies’ Data Infrastructure, Report Says
May 1, 20172017 Big Data 100: 35 Coolest Data Management And Integration Vendors
April 20, 2017Kafka channels the big data firehose
April 7, 2017Jay Kreps on the evolution of Kafka and the need for simplicity in data infrastructure
March 29, 201720 B2B Technologies To Try In 2017
March 29, 2017People to Watch 2017
March 24, 2017Confluent launches London HQ to serve growing demand for Apache Kafka real-time data streaming
March 8, 2017Confluent’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, 2017How Kafka Redefined Data Processing for the Streaming Age
March 7, 2017Data streaming startup Confluent secures $50M round backed by Sequoia
March 7, 2017Streaming data juggernaut Confluent announces $50M in Series C funding
March 7, 2017Confluent raises $50 million led by Sequoia Capital
March 7, 2017Confluent raises $50M to continue growing commercial arm of Apache Kafka
March 7, 2017These former LinkedIn engineers just raised another $50 million to help spread the software they invented
February 9, 2017Exactly Once: Why It’s Such a Big Deal for Apache Kafka
February 3, 2017An inside look at why Apache Kafka adoption is exploding
January 25, 2017InfoWorld's 2017 Technology of the Year Award winners
December 29, 2016Delta-V Awards - 2016 Edition - The Top Five
December 21, 20163 Innovative Startups Making Big Data Manageable for Everyone
December 16, 2016The 10 Coolest Startups Of 2016
December 13, 2016A New Day for Streaming Data, with Kafka and Confluent
December 7, 2016Trend-Setting Products for 2017
December 7, 2016Interview: Gwen Shapira, System Architect at Confluent
November 30, 2016Video: 3 considerations IT must make before moving to the cloud
November 30, 2016Video: The 3 trends that are defining next-gen big data deployments
October 19, 2016How Apache Kafka is powering a real-time data revolution
October 14, 2016Kafka Event Sourcing with Neha Narkhede
October 7, 2016Kafka Streams with Jay Kreps
October 5, 2016Confluent Announces Kafka for the Enterprise with Multi-Datacenter Replication
September 28, 2016Commercial Kafka Distro Gets Global Smarts
September 28, 2016Confluent retools Kafka for traditional enterprises
September 28, 2016Fresh Streaming Data: Get It While It’s Hot
September 28, 2016Apache Kafka Grabs Big Data Spotlight
September 27, 201625 Data Management Vendors Worth Watching
August 15, 2016Big Data Startup Confluent Ratchets Up Channel Efforts With New Program, Executive Hires
July 21, 2016Startup CFO’s Mantra: People First, Finance Second
July 20, 201625 Emerging Vendors You Need To Know About
July 15, 2016The 10 Coolest Big Data Products Of 2016
July 13, 2016Big Data At Ancestry.com: Why Data Stewardship And Open Source Matter So Much
July 7, 2016Investments in Fast Data Analytics Surge
June 19, 2016Neha Narkhede: Large-Scale Stream Processing with Apache Kafka
June 9, 2016Confluent Provides Updates to Apache Kafka Streaming Data Platform
June 6, 2016Kafka Streaming Gets a New Twist
June 3, 2016Confluent Platform 3.0 Supports Kafka Streams for Real-Time Data Processing
June 3, 2016Kafka streaming gets a new twist
May 27, 2016Confluent Boosts its Streaming Data Solution
May 26, 2016Confluent Platform 3 Brings New Kafka, Control Center
May 25, 2016Apache Kafka Stars in Two New Open Source Big Data Offerings
May 24, 2016Kafka Creators Tackle Consistency Problem in Data Pipelines
May 24, 2016Confluent Platform 3.0 Now Available
May 24, 2016Streaming data, simplified: Kafka Streams reaches GA
May 16, 2016Neha Narkhede is one of Fast Company's Most Creative People in Business in 2016
May 2, 20162016 Big Data 100: 30 Coolest Data Management Vendors
April 28, 2016Kafka Summit: Big Data In Real-Time Gains Momentum
April 27, 2016Kafka Summit Highlights Lack of Bugs
April 27, 2016Confluent to Offer Classes on How to Run Kafka Correctly
April 27, 2016Apache Kafka Gains Traction Among Enterprise Users
April 26, 2016Open Source Big Data Tool Kafka Advances in Enterprise
April 18, 2016Hadoop, Kafka Creators Big on Big Data Streaming Analytics
April 11, 201612 Inspiring Women In Data Science, Big Data
April 7, 2016Data in the emerging world of stream processing
April 6, 2016The Real-Time Rise of Apache Kafka
April 5, 2016Reporter’s Notebook: 6 Key Takeaways from Strata + Hadoop World
March 31, 2016Kafka is the New Standard in Big Data Messaging
March 28, 2016People to Watch 2016
March 26, 2016Distributed Stream Processing with Apache Kafka
March 14, 2016Microservices for a Streaming World
March 14, 2016Kafka Gets a Stream-Processing Makeover
March 10, 2016The Value of Real Time Data Processing
February 19, 2016Real-time Data Pipelines with Kafka Connect
February 4, 2016The Rise and Rise of Apache Kafka
January 20, 2016InfoWorld's 2016 Technology of the Year Award Winners
January 12, 2016How Apache Kafka is Fundamentally Changing the Streaming of Big Data
December 25, 2015The 53 Startups That Will Be Huge in 2016, According to Venture Capitalists
December 11, 2015Confluent's Platform Receives Updated Apache Kafka 0.9 Core
December 11, 2015Confluent 2.0 Brings New Kafka Features to the Enterprise
December 11, 2015Confluent Unveils Next Generation of Apache Kafka as Enterprise Adoption Soars
December 10, 2015Confluent Updates Open Source, Kafka-Based Platform for Big Data Streaming
December 9, 2015Confluent's Apache Kafka Gets Security, Real-Time Messaging Updates
December 8, 2015Confluent Gives Kafka More Enterprise Chops
December 8, 2015Confluent’s Apache Kafka Distro Gets a Lot More Secure
November 11, 2015Piping hot: Why is Apache Kafka catching on?
October 4, 2015Big data dump: Using information 'like a car engine'
October 2, 2015Making big data personal
September 16, 2015Bossie Awards 2015: The best open source big data tools
August 19, 20153 Reasons Why Confluent's Buzzy Apache Kafka Software Was Able To Take Off At LinkedIn
August 19, 2015Meet Confluent, The Big-Data Startup That Has Silicon Valley Buzzing
July 8, 2015Confluent Raises $24 Million For Data 'Streams' Powering LinkedIn, Netflix And Uber
July 8, 2015This big data startup with roots from LinkedIn just raised millions of dollars
July 8, 2015Confluent Closes $24M Series B Round For Its Apache Kafka-Based Stream Data Platform
July 8, 2015Confluent, the startup from the creators of Apache Kafka, raises $24M
July 8, 2015The Real-Time Future of Data According to Jay Kreps
July 8, 2015Confluent closes $24 million Series B funding round
July 8, 2015Confluent raises $24 million in Series B funding
July 8, 2015Kafka creators raise $24 million to move into stream processing
July 8, 2015Confluent Raises $24 Million to Commercialize Kafka
July 8, 2015Why Apache Kafka firm Confluent thinks IoT and streaming will gain from $24m injection