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Concepts, Use Cases, Industry Stories: The Ultimate Data Streaming Guide
This book, written by Confluent Field CTO Kai Waehner, showcases real-world success stories that highlight the power of data streaming and event-driven architectures. With a dedicated chapter on retail & ecommerce, it offers practical insights for unifying operational and analytical data to build real-time, reliable data products that drive industry innovation.
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Real-Time Inventory & Replenishment at Walmart, a Practitioner's View
In this webinar, Suman Pattnaik, Director of Engineering at Walmart breaks down how he uses Confluent to power real-time inventory and replenishment systems for the international retailer. See how these applications use Kafka to process roughly 500 million events per day and 1 million online transactions to ensure stores never run out of items.
How Sainsbury's Is Revolutionizing the Supply Chain With Confluent
With Confluent on AWS, Sainsbury’s has been able to build solutions for real-time decision-making and automated infrastructure for the UK retailer. Watch the webinar to learn why choosing Confluent has been essential for accelerating engineering work, innovation, and digital transformation at Sainsbury’s.
How Dollar General Leverages Streaming Pipelines for Real-Time Retail Use Cases
With over 20,000 stores, Dollar General is one of the largest retailers in the US—so when it needed to evolve its data strategy, the company turned to Confluent’s complete data streaming platform. Learn how Dollar General leverages data streaming to power better, faster decision-making as it implements a multicloud strategy for replenishment, inventory, and merchandising use cases.
“We’ve been thinking a lot about things like fraud, where we want to be able to have real-time fraud detection and be able to build that into the product. Or our availability algorithms—how do we understand if a particular item is available at a particular store? There’s so many opportunities like that across the company, and I think a lot of it comes with moving to streaming from these batch systems that we had before."
“Our hyper-personalized approach is delivering measurable results. In our A/B testing, we've seen a significant increase in customer conversion rates. That's proof that our decision to adopt a real-time event streaming approach was the right one. I expect even bigger benefits as we continue to grow our capabilities.”
“Using Kafka and Confluent, Walmart has initiated a digital transformation and modern omnichannel experience that allows customers to interact with Walmart.com seamlessly, order groceries online or in a mobile app, and either pick them up or have them delivered. Walmart's investment in event streaming with Confluent has contributed to business innovation as well as company growth in the public market."
“To have data streaming implemented at a global scale at L'Oréal called for a platform that’s reliable, can auto-scale depending on our need...and can cater to our future growth—all while ensuring we get the utmost support we need. That’s why we invested in Confluent."
“In retail, everything is becoming data-driven. It’s no longer just a facet of IT, it’s quickly become essential to the entire business. Kafka has become a company-wide nervous system for us, and Confluent has really taken it to the next level.”
Unlimited Use Cases for Retail
& eCommerce
There are thousands of ways today’s most competitive retailers are using real-time data to keep pace with consumer expectations. From increasing customer loyalty and retention to finetuning demand forecasting for more officiant supply chain management, retail and e-commerce businesses depend on fast, reliable insights. Explore future-ready streaming architectures behind the streaming use cases that make it all possible.
Upcoming Data Streaming Events
Get Early Access to Current 2026
April 22, 2026 | JW Marriott Bengaluru Prestige
The best minds in data are coming together at Current Bengalur—you won’t want to miss it. Get insights from leading data streaming experts, discover real-world use cases, and connect with peers solving similar challenges across industries.
AWS re:Invent 2025
December 1-5, 2025
Meet with the Confluent team to learn how our cloud-native data streaming platform on Amazon Web Services (AWS) can power any use case from AI to analytics to building modern applications. Confluent and AWS together make your data instantly useful, governed, and ready to drive innovative outcomes.
Migration to Cloud-Native Kafka Has Never Been Easier
The Confluent Migration Accelerator enables a seamless transition from any version of Apache Kafka® or traditional messaging systems to Confluent. We give you exclusive access to our resources from our partner ecosystem, and tailored migration offerings, to make migrations a breeze. Qualified opportunities can also receive funding for migrations.