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Data Products, Data Contracts, and Change Data Capture
Change data capture is a popular method to connect database tables to data streams, but it comes with drawbacks. The next evolution of the CDC pattern, first-class data products, provide resilient pipelines that support both real-time and batch processing while isolating upstream systems...
Unlock Cost Savings with Freight Clusters–Now in General Availability
Confluent Cloud Freight clusters are now Generally Available on AWS. In this blog, learn how Freight clusters can save you up to 90% at GBps+ scale.
Unleash Real-Time Agentic AI: Introducing Streaming Agents on Confluent Cloud
Build event-driven agents on Apache Flink® with Streaming Agents on Confluent Cloud—fresh context, MCP tool calling, real-time embeddings, and enterprise governance.
Data Streaming: The Key to Tackling Data Challenges for AI Success
Explore common data management challenges and how data streaming helps overcome them—powering enterprise AI with real-time insights.
Powering Event-Driven, Multi-Agent AI: Confluent Named MongoDB Global Tech Partner of the Year
Confluent is honored to be named MongoDB’s 2025 Global Tech Partner of the Year. Together, we’re helping enterprises build intelligent, event-driven AI systems with real-time data streaming, vector search, and multi-agent orchestration.
Strengthen Security With TLS 1.3 for Confluent Cloud Clusters
Confluent Cloud is introducing TLS 1.3 for stronger security. It’s available now as an opt-in feature for Dedicated clusters. On April 30, 2026, TLS 1.3 will be enabled by default for all remaining cluster types. Confluent will continue to support TLS 1.2.
How to Build Real-Time Apache Kafka® Dashboards That Drive Action
Learn how to build real-time dashboards with Apache Kafka® that help your organization go beyond simple data visualization and analysis paralysis to instant analysis and action.
Why More Teams Are Starting With Confluent Cloud on AWS Marketplace
Build real-time apps in minutes. Confluent Cloud on AWS Marketplace offers fully managed Kafka with Flink, Iceberg, 120+ connectors, and enterprise-grade governance—so your team spends less time on ops and more on innovation.
Confluent Cloud for Government が FedRAMP 20x Low 認証を取得
Confluent は、Confluent Cloud for Government の提供において FedRAMP Ready ステータスを達成しました。これは政府機関に安全なデータストリーミングサービスを提供するための重要なマイルストーンであり、厳格なセキュリティ基準へのコミットメントを示しています。この認定は、完全な...
Introducing Apache Kafka® 4.1.0: What’s New and How to Upgrade
Announcing the release of Apache Kafka 4.1
Cut the Costs of Hosted Apache Kafka® With Confluent Cloud’s Price Guarantee
This blog post outlines the top four challenges of using hyperscaler-hosted Kafka, focusing on high costs, manual maintenance, reliability gaps, and vendor lock-in. It then explains how Confluent Cloud is architected to solve each of these specific problems for customers.
Confluent Champion: How Vineet Pursues Engineering Excellence in an Innovation Culture
Learn about Vineet’s experience and growth at Confluent and how his team and environment have set him up for success.
Using Webhooks to Integrate Confluent Cloud and Microsoft Teams
Learn how to use webhooks to integrate your Microsoft Teams tenant with Confluent Cloud and receive service event notifications directly in your inbox or team channels.
How to Protect PII in Apache Kafka® With Schema Registry and Data Contracts
Protect sensitive data with Data Contracts using Confluent Schema Registry.
Unleash Real-Time Agentic AI: Introducing Streaming Agents on Confluent Cloud
Build event-driven agents on Apache Flink® with Streaming Agents on Confluent Cloud—fresh context, MCP tool calling, real-time embeddings, and enterprise governance.
New in Confluent Cloud: Unleashing Cost-Effective Streaming for Any Workload
Confluent Cloud’s Q3 launch delivers cost-effective streaming with new features like Private Network Interface (PNI) for lower networking costs, boosted client connection limits, Streaming Agents for real-time agentic AI, expanded Tableflow functionality with upserts, Cluster Linking on Google Cl...
How Confluent Is Enhancing and Easing Migration to Fully Managed Connectors
Confluent has enhanced its fully managed connectors with new features like exposed connector logs for non-admins, plugin versioning, expanded SMT support, custom topic naming for DLQ and error topics, and specific connector updates. These improvements offer better control, data guarantees, user...