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Confluent for Gaming Startups
Set data in motion to power real-time game experiences your players love.
Are you at GDC in San Francisco? Let's Meet There For a Drink!
The Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Francisco is the world’s premier event for developers who make the games we love. Get ready to elevate your GDC experience with an exclusive Happy Hour event hosted by Confluent, StarTree and Amazon Web Services (AWS)! Join us for an evening of networking, fun, and celebration as we bring together the gaming community's brightest minds. And: Walk away with limited-edition swag!
March 20th, 2025 | 5:00pm - 8:00pm PDT
Real-Time Gaming Infrastructure
Scalable, reliable data infrastructure is key for improving gaming experiences and creating new monetization strategies. A hit game can produce billions of events per day. Embedded within those data points are insights that can transform the game into a sustainable long-term success.
Confluent's data streaming platform empowers you to stream and process real-time data to build better games faster, create an immersive and engaging gaming experience, and scale your games to match global player demands.
The Data Streaming Platform
Confluent builds on Apache Kafka® and Apache Flink® to provide a single platform to continuously stream, connect, govern and process data at scale.
Stream
Deliver unmatched performance, scalability, reliability, and price for your Apache Kafka® workloads powered by Kora
Connect
Accelerate time to market by eliminating up to 6 months of dev time with our library of 120+ pre-built connectors
Process
Effortlessly filter, analyze, and enrich your data streams with Apache Flink, the de facto standard for stream processing
Govern
Empower teams to self-serve by ensuring trust, security, clarity, and discoverability in your data streams
Use Cases with Confluent
Build Immersive and Engaging Experiences with In-Game Telemetry
Analyze player interactions with real-time in-game telemetry and adjust critical elements and gameplay. Use stream processing to analyze player profiles, build leaderboards, and personalize experiences with loyalty programs and incentives.
Increase Monetization with Real-Time Insights
Offer in-game purchases in real time with in-game advertising and cross-promotions. Combine data across all your systems and telemetry and integrate with 3rd-party providers to provide a seamless integrated experience for billing and payments.
Detect Fraud and Mitigate Cyber Risk in Real Time
Aggregate data to analyze risk factors and patterns and power machine learning algorithms in real time to detect fraudulent activity, fake profiles or abusive behavior. Integrate into modern cloud-based services for data visualization and reporting.
Enable Real-Time Monitoring and Notifications
Manage crucial metrics that ensure performance and reliability of critical infrastructure and apps. Prevent issues (e.g., slow load times) with real-time insights. Integrate with 3rd-party tools for analytics and real-time dashboards to ensure 24/7 operations.
Simplify Infrastructure Complexity with a Fully Managed Cloud Service
Elastically scale your game to global audiences with a cutting-edge platform delivered as a fully managed service on any cloud of your choice, so you can focus on building better games faster.
Make Data Streaming a Reality with Our Partners
Complement your existing data investments with Confluent and push trusted data across your entire stack in real time.
Cloud Partners
Technology Partners
System Integrators
Confluent for Gaming Startups is dedicated to empowering early-stage startups with the tools, credits, technical help, and community support needed to succeed in the fast-paced world of data streaming and AI. By providing an easy onramp to Confluent’s real-time data streaming platform, we help startups scale faster and smarter. Apply now!