Confluent Blog

In many ways, Storyblocks’ technical journey has mirrored that of most other startups and disruptors: Start small and as simple as possible (i.e., with a PHP monolith) Watch the company […]

As data flows in and out of your Confluent Cloud clusters, it’s imperative to monitor their behavior. Bring Your Own Monitoring (BYOM) means you can configure an application performance monitoring […]

Storyblocks is the world’s first stock media subscription service offering video, audio, and images. To support this fast-growing business, the Storyblocks platform produces millions of events every day, ranging from […]

With many operating systems you have to periodically run a disk defragmenter program (“defrag”) to restore your system efficiency. By reorganizing the data stored on disk, sequential data becomes more […]

A common challenge organizations face is how to extract, transform, and load (ETL) Salesforce data into a data warehouse, so that the business can use the data. Salesforce (SFDC) is […]

In four years, Thierry Mbemba has gone from an entry-level sales rep at Confluent to one of the leading producers on the company’s worldwide sales team. A customer relationships driver […]

Today we’re announcing an exciting Strategic Collaboration Agreement (SCA) with Amazon Web Services (AWS). This new five-year agreement builds on our strong existing collaboration, with the goal of making it […]

The Internet of Things (IoT)—connecting physical objects to software components—has created several innovations and opportunities for enterprise companies, and continues to grow in top industries, including healthcare, smart factories, energy, […]

Enabling data in motion within an organization involves much more than simply setting up a Confluent cluster, piping in a few data sources, and writing a set of streaming applications. […]

On behalf of the Apache Kafka® community, it is my pleasure to announce the release of Apache Kafka 3.1.0. The 3.1.0 release contains many improvements and new features. We’ll highlight […]

What’s it really like to spend your days helping Confluent customers? Below, Alex Altman (Senior Director of Americas Support), Sam Hecht (VP, Global Support and Success Engineering), and Anna McDonald […]

A data pipeline is a method for getting data from one system to another, whether for analytics purposes or for storage. Learning the elements that make up this proven architecture […]

Instacart’s core mission—to create a world where everyone has access to the food they love and more time to enjoy it together—took on a new level of importance and urgency […]

The Confluent Q1 ‘22 Launch is live and packed full of new features that enable businesses to continue innovating quickly with real-time experiences fueled by data in motion. Our quarterly […]