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Forrester TEI Study: Save ~$2.58M Using Confluent Cloud vs Apache Kafka

Download this Forrester study to understand the economic benefits of Confluent Cloud.

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Top 6 Reasons to Modernize Legacy Messaging Infrastructure

Learn the challenges of traditional messaging middleware, hindering innovation, low fault tolerance at scale, ephemeral persistence limiting data usage for analytics, and soaring technical debt and operational costs.

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Real-time Fraud Detection - Use Case Implementation

This whitepaper covers how to implement a real-time fraud detection solution, covering multi-channel detection and real-time data integration, real-time processing, machine learning and AI, and real-time monitoring, reporting, and analytics.

eBook

Practical Data Mesh: Building Decentralized Data Architectures with Event Streams

Why an event-driven data mesh built on Apache Kafka provides the best way to access important business data and unify the operational and analytical planes.

eBook

Unlock Your Data’s Full Potential With Streaming Data Pipelines

Download the “Transform Your Data Pipelines, Transform Your Business: 3 Ways to Get Started” ebook to take a deep dive into the challenges associated with legacy data pipelines and how streaming pipelines can help you reinvent the way data flows through—and is accessed—in your organization.

Report

Kora: A Cloud-Native Event Streaming Platform For Kafka

Building a cloud-native data streaming platform isn’t just hosting Kafka on the cloud. We documented our design of Kora, the Apache Kafka engine built for the cloud, and were awarded “Best Industry Paper” at Very Large Data Bases (VLDB), one of the most prestigious tech conferences.

eBook

The Tech Executive’s Guide to Data Streaming Systems

Data streaming provides an accurate, real-time view of your business. Learn about the data streaming ecosystem, its benefits, and how to accelerate real-time insights and analytics in this guide.

eBook

The Data Streaming Revolution: Rise of the Kafka Heroes

Shoe retail titan NewLimits is drowning in stale, inconsistent data due to nightly batch jobs that keep failing. Read the comic to see how developer Ada and architect Jax navigate through Batchland with Iris, their guide, and enter Streamscape and the realm of event-driven architectures.

White Paper

Streaming Pipelines to Data Warehouses - Use Case Implementation

This whitepaper is an in-depth guide to building streaming pipelines to data warehouses. Covers source and sink connectors (with Change Data Capture capabilities), stream processing with Kafka Streams and ksqlDB, with use cases and operational considerations.

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Streaming Pipelines to Databases - Use Case Implementation

This whitepaper is an in-depth guide to building streaming pipelines between different databases (RDBMS). Covers source and sink connectors (with Change Data Capture capabilities), stream processing with Kafka Streams and ksqlDB, with use cases and operational considerations.

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Mainframe Integration - Use Case Implementation

This whitepaper outlines the most common patterns and considerations for Mainframe Integration projects.

eBook

Apache Kafka® Reinvented for the Cloud

Kafka management becomes risky and costly as it scales. Learn why Confluent reinvented Kafka as a cloud service for over 10X more elasticity, storage, and resiliency.

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Gartner report: Innovation Insight for Streaming Data in Motion: The Collision of Messaging, Analytics and DBMS

Many businesses are using streaming data in some form—but not necessarily effectively. As the volume and variety of data streams increases, data and analytics leaders should evaluate the design patterns, architectures, and vendors involved in data streaming technology to find relevant opportunities.

eBook

Easily Offload Operational Complexities to Make Kafka Go Farther, Faster

Download the “Kafka In the Cloud: Why It’s 10x Better With Confluent” ebook to take a deep dive into how Confluent harnessed the power of the cloud to build a data streaming platform that’s 10x better than Apache Kafka, so you can leave your Kafka management woes behind.

Brief

3 Best Practices for Building Cloud-Native Systems with Kafka

Taking Kafka to the cloud? Learn 3 best practices for building a cloud-native system that makes data streaming scalable, reliable, and cost-effective.

Brief

5 Signs It's Time to Move On From Legacy Architecture

Learn about 5 challenges of legacy systems and why your organization should move its data infrastructure and Apache Kafka use cases to the cloud.

Report

451 Research’s Report Reveals Major Apache Flink® & Confluent Announcements!

Discover the latest Apache Flink developments and major Confluent announcements from Kafka Summit 2023 in 451 Research’s Market Insight Report.

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10x Banking Infographic

Modern customers crave personalization. How do banks deliver on it? By leveraging real-time data—enabled by data streaming platforms—to unlock powerful customer experiences.

eBook

Putting Fraud In Context

In our ebook “Putting Fraud In Context”, we explore the complexities of fraud detection, why current detection tools often fall short and how Confluent can help.

Case Study

How BigCommerce Upleveled Kafka Management for Digital Retail Innovation

Recognizing the need for real-time data while understanding the burden of self-managing Kafka on their own led BigCommerce to choose Confluent—allowing them to tap into data streaming without having to manage and maintain the data infrastructure.

eBook

Designing Event-Driven Systems

Learn how event-driven architecture and stream processing tools such as Apache Kafka can help you build business-critical systems that open modern, innovative use cases.

eBook

Data Streaming Platforms: To Build or to Buy?

Should you spend time self-managing open source technologies such as Apache Kafka® (build), or invest in a managed service (buy)? Let’s evaluate!

eBook

Top Three Use Cases for Streaming Data Pipelines

Our latest eBook explores legacy data pipelines challenges—and how streaming pipelines and existing tech partners can help you optimize how data flows through your company, and make it more accessible throughout your organization.

Datasheet

5 Tips to Improve Fraud Detection and Prevention With Data Streaming

Modern fraud technology calls for a modern fraud detection approach, and that requires real-time data. Industry leaders from Capital One, RBC, and more are detecting fraud using data streaming to protect customers in real time.

Brief

Confluent and Amazon Security Lake

Processing large amounts of data is challenging due to cost, physical size, efficiency, and availability limitations most companies face. A scalable and highly-available back-end system such as Confluent can efficiently process your company’s ever-growing volume of data.

eBook

Modern, Omnichannel Retail Experiences with Kafka

To succeed, retailers must unify data scattered across point-of-sale, e-commerce, ERP, and other systems. Without integrating all of this data in motion—and making it available to applications in real time—it’s almost impossible to deliver a fully connected omnichannel customer experience.

White Paper

Best Practices for Multi-Region Apache Kafka® Disaster Recovery in the Cloud (Active/Passive)

In this white paper, we provide a holistic overview of an active-passive multi-region DR solution based on the capabilities of Confluent Cloud, the only fully managed, cloud-native service for Apache Kafka.

Brief

Confluent Data Warehouse Modernization with AWS

Confluent can help you build data streaming pipelines that allow you to connect, process, and govern any data stream for any data warehouse.

Report

Retailers Improve Their Topline and Bottom Line by Harnessing Data in Motion

Ventana Research finds that more than nine in ten organizations place a high priority on speeding the flow of data across their business and improving the responsiveness of their organizations. This is where Confluent comes in.

White Paper

Good Teams Manage Kafka®. Efficient Teams Use Confluent.

This white paper unpacks the true costs of open source Kafka and MSK and demonstrates the value you can realize using Confluent.

Report

GigaOm Ease-of-Use Comparison: Managed vs. Open-Source Kafka

Read GigaOm’s ease-of-use study on self-managed Apache Kafka® and fully managed Confluent Cloud. See how Confluent accelerates and streamlines development.

White Paper

Disaster Recovery for Multi-Datacenter Apache Kafka Deployments

A practical guide to configuring multiple Apache Kafka clusters so that if a disaster scenario strikes, you have a plan for failover, failback, and ultimately successful recovery.

eBook

Making Sense of Stream Processing

In this book, O’Reilly author Martin Kleppmann shows you how stream processing can make your data processing systems more flexible and less complex.

eBook

Learn how Confluent can simplify and accelerate your migration to Amazon Aurora

Learn how Confluent can simplify and accelerate your migration to Amazon Aurora

eBook

Modernize Your Databases with Confluent’s Data Streaming Platform

Confluent is 10X better than Apache Kafka so you can cost-effectively build real-time applications on Google Cloud

eBook

Modernize your Data Estate with Confluent and Microsoft Azure

Confluent is 10X better than Apache Kafka so you can cost-effectively build real-time applications on Microsoft Azure.

White Paper

10 Ways Confluent Drives Transformation in Financial Firms

This whitepaper describes some of the financial businesses that rely on Confluent and the game-changing business outcomes that can be realized by using data streaming technology

eBook

Harness Data in Motion Within a Hybrid and Multi-cloud Architecture

Explore new ways that your organization can thrive with a data-in-motion approach by downloading the new e-book, Harness Data in Motion Within a Hybrid and Multicloud Architecture.

Datasheet

Good teams manage Kafka. Efficient teams use Confluent.

An overview of Confluent’s Core Product Pillars.

eBook

Apache Kafka Transaction Data Streaming for Dummies

Learn how CDC (Change Data Capture) captures database transactions for ingest into Confluent Platform to enable real-time data pipelines.

White Paper

Accelerate Cloud Migrations with Apache Kafka®

Learn why organizations are considering Apache Kafka to streamline cloud migrations.

White Paper

Kafka Serialization and Deserialization (SerDes) Examples

Dive into full Kafka examples, with connector configurations and Kafka Streams code, that demonstrate different data formats and SerDes combinations for building event streaming pipelines.

White Paper

The Ultimate Guide to Understanding Event-Driven Microservices Architecture

Learn how Apache Kafka, Confluent, and event-driven microservices ensure real-time communication and event streaming for modernized deployment, testing, and continuous delivery.

Brief

IDC Tech Brief: Why Real-Time Streaming Technology Is Critical to Innovation and Gaining a Competitive Advantage

In this IDC Tech Brief, we share our research on streaming data platforms, and the advantages they’re bringing for innovation, improved operational efficiency, ROI, and more.

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Ventana Report: Confluent Addresses Data Governance for Data in Motion

This Ventana Research Analyst Perspective explains why organizations have to manage and govern data streaming projects alongside data at rest.

Infographic

Sainsbury’s Infographic

How Sainsbury’s is revolutionizing its supply chain with real time data streaming from Confluent.

Datasheet

Moving at the Speed of the Mission with Data Fabric

As the DoD presses forward with Joint All-Domain Command and Control (JADC2) programs and architectures the Air Force is working to stand up technology centers that will not only allow for the sharing of data but for the sharing of data in motion.

Infographic

Data Streaming 101 Infographic

The modern world is defined by speed. Grocery delivery, rideshare apps, and payments for just about anything can happen instantly using a mobile device and its apps. Every action of every consumer creates data, and businesses must make sense of it quickly to take advantage in real time.

White Paper

The Cloud-Native Chasm: Lessons Learned from Reinventing Apache Kafka as a Cloud-Native, Online Service

Differentiating cloud-native, cloud, and cloud services, and lessons learned building a fully managed, elastic, cloud-native Apache Kafka.

eBook

How Businesses Succeed With Real-Time Data Streaming: 5 Use Cases

In this ebook, you’ll get a look at five of the common use cases when getting started with data streaming, with real-world customer examples and insights into how your organization can make the leap.

White Paper

Optimize your SIEM to Build Tomorrow’s Cyber Defense with Confluent

Optimize your SIEM to Build Tomorrow’s Cyber Defense with Confluent

White Paper

Confluent E2E Encryption Accelerator

To learn more about the E2E Encryption Accelerator and how it may be used to address your data protection requirements, download the Confluent E2E Encryption Accelerator white paper.

eBook

Running Apache Kafka® in 2022: A Cloud-Native Service

In 2022, if you want to deliver high-value projects that drive competitive advantage or business differentiation quickly, your best people can’t be stuck in the day-to-day management of Kafka, and your budget is better spent on your core business. By now you know, the answer is cloud.

White Paper

Stateful Serverless Architectures with ksqlDB and AWS Lambda

Introduction to serverless, how it works, and the benefits stateful serverless architectures provide when paired with data streaming technologies.

White Paper

Hybrid and Multicloud Reference Architecture

To learn more about how you can implement a real-time data platform that connects all parts of your global business, download this free Confluent hybrid and multicloud reference architecture.

Report

Use Data Insights to Build Resiliency in the Face of Complexity

Check out IDC’s findings on why & how building resiliency matters in the face of near-constant disruption. To build resiliency, businesses should focus on one key area: their data.

Find out more in IDC’s From Data at Rest to Data in Motion: A Shift to Continuous Delivery of Value.

eBook

Why you need data streaming for hybrid and multicloud data architectures

This eBook will explain how you can modernize your data architecture with a real-time, global data plane that eliminates the need for point-to-point connections and makes your data architecture simpler, faster, more resilient, and more cost effective.

Report

IDC Market Note: Not Just Messaging: Confluent Points the Way to a More Comprehensive Approach to Kafka and Streaming Data Platforms

This IDC Market Note discusses the main takeaways from the 2022 Kafka Summit in London, hosted by Confluent.

eBook

From monoliths to microservices: building event-driven systems

The secret to modernizing monoliths and scaling microservices across your organization? An event-driven architecture.

eBook

Set Your Data in Motion with Apache Kafka using Confluent on AWS

The companies most successful in meeting the demanding expectations of today’s customers are running on top of a constant supply of real-time event streams and continuous real-time processing. If you aspire to join the ranks of those capitalizing on data in motion, this is the place to start.

White Paper

Autonomous Networks and Data In Motion

Download this white paper to read how Confluent can power the infrastructure necessary to run Autonomous Networks.

eBook

Set Your Data in Motion with Confluent and Apache Kafka®

The companies most successful in meeting the demanding expectations of today’s customers are running on top of a constant supply of real-time event streams and continuous real-time processing. If you aspire to join the ranks of those capitalizing on data in motion, this is the place to start.

White Paper

Comparing Confluent with Traditional Messaging Middleware

In this paper, we explore some of the fundamental concepts of Apache Kafka, the foundation of Confluent Platform, and compare it to traditional message-oriented middleware.

eBook

Recognizing the Full Value of Event Streaming: Beyond Messaging to Meaning

This ENTERPRISE MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATES® (EMA™) eBook will show how, with fully managed cloud-based event streaming, executives, managers, and individual contributors gain access to real-time intelligence and the enterprise will achieve unprecedented momentum and material gain.

eBook

Real-Time Analytics: Best Practices and Use Cases for Deploying Apache Kafka on AWS with Confluent

In this eBook from Confluent and AWS, discover when and how to deploy Apache Kafka on your enterprise to harness your data, respond in real-time, and make faster, more informed decisions.

White Paper

From IoT to Effective Analytics— The Full Journey

From data collection at scale to data processing in the Cloud or at the Edge—IoT architectures and data can provide enormous advantages through useful business and operational insights.

White Paper

Technology Leadership Enabling Digital Transformation in the Home Mortgage Industry

Confluent is pioneering a new category of data infrastructure focused on data in motion, designed to be the intelligent connective tissue enabling real-time data, from multiple sources, to constantly and securely stream across any organization.

White Paper

Build an Integrated Trading Ecosystem with Data in Motion

Confluent’s platform for data in motion unifies silos and sets data in motion across an organization. Learn how this empowers developers to build the kinds of real-time applications that make their organizations more competitive and more efficient.

eBook

Confluent and Qlik® Fast-Track Business Insights with Data in Motion

Discover how to fuel Kafka-enabled analytics use cases—including real-time customer predictions, supply chain optimization, and operational reporting—with a real-time flow of data.

White Paper

Measuring the Cost-Effectiveness of Confluent Platform

Confluent Platform completes Kafka with a set of enterprise-grade features and services. Confluent Platform can reduce your Kafka TCO by up to 40% and accelerate your time to value for new data in motion use cases by 6+ months. Learn how Confluent Platform drives these outcomes for our customers.

eBook

The Ongoing Disruption of Retail: A Shift to Data in Motion

Every one of your customer touch points, from an actual purchase to a marketing engagement, creates data streams and opportunities to trigger automations in real time.

White Paper

Transforming Financial Services to Meet the New Wave of Digital Adoption

For financial services companies, digital technologies can solve business problems, drastically improve traditional processes, modernize middleware and front-end infrastructure, improve operational efficiency, and most importantly, better serve customers.

eBook

Build a Foundation for Tomorrow’s Financial Services

Banks and financial institutions are looking toward a future in which most business is transacted digitally. They’re adding new, always-on digital services, using artificial intelligence (AI) to power a new class of real-time applications, and automating back-office processes.

eBook

The Ongoing Disruption of Banking: The Shift to Data in Motion

Banking customers today demand personalized service and expect real-time insight into their accounts from any device—and not just during “business hours.” Financial institutions trying to meet those expectations have intense competition from each other as well as fintech startups...

White Paper

Confluent Platform Reference Architecture

Learn about the components of Confluent Enterprise, key considerations for production deployments, and guidelines for selecting hardware or deployment with different cloud providers.

White Paper

Building Stream Processing Applications with Confluent

Download this whitepaper to learn about ksqlDB, one of the most critical components of Confluent, that enables you to build complete stream processing applications with just a few simple SQL queries.

White Paper

Best Practices for Apache Kafka® – 5 Tips Every Developer Should Know

In this white paper, you’ll learn about five Kafka elements that deserve closer attention, either because they significantly improve upon the behavior of their predecessors, because they are easy to overlook or to make assumptions about, or simply because they are extremely useful.

White Paper

Consistency and Completeness: Rethinking Distributed Stream Processing in Apache Kafka®

This paper presents Apache Kafka’s core design for stream processing, which relies on its persistent log architecture as the storage and inter-processor communication layers to achieve correctness guarantees.

eBook

I Heart Logs

Jay Kreps, CEO of Confluent and co-creator of Apache Kafka, shows how logs work in distributed systems, and provides practical applications of these concepts.

White Paper

Confluent and Istio Service Mesh

This white paper explores the potential benefits and relevance of deploying Confluent with the Istio service mesh.

White Paper

Recommendations for Deploying Apache Kafka® on Kubernetes

Learn Kubernetes terms, concepts and considerations, as well as best practices for deploying Apache Kafka on Kubernetes.

White Paper

Confluent Platform Reference Architecture for Kubernetes

The reference architecture provides a detailed architecture for deploying Confluent Platform on Kubernetes and uses the Helm Charts for Confluent Platform as a reference to illustrate configuration and deployment practices.

White Paper

Recommendations for Developers using Confluent Cloud

In this white paper, we offer recommendations and best practices for designing data architectures that will work well with Confluent Cloud.

White Paper

Optimizing Your Apache Kafka® Deployment

This whitepaper discusses how to optimize your Apache Kafka deployment for various services goals including throughput, latency, durability and availability. It is intended for Kafka administrators and developers planning to deploy Kafka in production.

White Paper

Benchmark Your Dedicated Apache Kafka® Cluster on Confluent Cloud

This white paper reports the results of benchmarks we ran on a 2-CKU multi-zone dedicated cluster and shows the ability of a CKU to deliver the stated client bandwidth on AWS, GCP, and Azure clouds.

eBook

5 Steps to Event Streaming: The Pivot from Projects to a Platform

In this ebook, you’ll learn about the profound strategic potential in an event streaming platform for enterprise businesses of many kinds. The types of business challenges event streaming is capable of addressing include driving better customer experience, reducing costs, mitigating risk, and providing a single source of truth across the business. It can be a game changer.

White Paper

Event Streaming at the Core of Industry 4.0

If you’re a leader in a business that could or does benefit from automation, IoT, and real-time data, don’t miss this white paper. The lifeblood of Industry 4.0 is streaming data, which is where event streaming comes in: the real-time capture, processing, and management of all your data in order to drive transformative technology initiatives.

Brief

Enabling Operational Data Flows with NoSQL - Couchbase and Confluent

This brief describes how to enable operational data flows with NoSQL and Kafka, in partnership with Couchbase and Confluent.

White Paper

10 Principles for Streaming Services

This paper provides 10 principles for streaming services, a list of items to be mindful of when designing and building a microservices system

Report

The IDC Perspective on Confluent Platform 6.0

The IDC Perspective on Confluent Platform 6.0 is here, and in it, you can read IDC’s lens on the importance of event streaming to enterprise companies today.

White Paper

An IDC Spotlight on Modern Data Management: Real Time and Software-Defined

We used to talk about the world’s collective data in terms of terabytes. Now, according to IDC’s latest Global Datasphere, we talk in terms of zettabtytes: 138Z of new data will be created in 2024—and 24% of it will be real-time data. How important is real-time streaming data to enterprise organizations? If they want to respond at the speed of business, it’s crucial. In this digital economy, having a competitive advantage requires using data to support quicker decision-making, streamlined operations, and optimized customer experiences. Those things all come from data.

White Paper

Deploying Confluent Enterprise on Microsoft Azure

This white paper outlines the integration of Confluent Enterprise with the Microsoft Azure Cloud Platform.

Brief

Modernize data architectures - MongoDB and Kafka

This brief describes a modern data architecture with Kafka and MongoDB

Report

2018 Apache Kafka® Report

The survey of the Apache Kafka community shows how and why companies are adopting streaming platforms to build event-driven architectures.

Brief

Streaming Analytics Platform - Altair and Confluent

This brief describes a comprehensive streaming analytics platform for visualizing real-time data with Altiar Panopticon and Confluent Platform.

White Paper

Confluent Verification Guide

This paper will guide developers who want to build an integration or connector and outlines the criteria used for Confluent to verify the integration.

White Paper

Top 3 Streaming Use Cases for Real Time Streams in Financial Services Architectures

Read this white paper to learn about the common use cases Confluent is seeing amongst its financial services customers.

Case Study

Leading Online Delivery Service Increases Messaging Layer Throughput with Event Streaming and Confluent Cloud

Confluent Cloud enabled the company to get started quickly, minimize operational overhead, and reduce engineering effort.

White Paper

Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) for Kafka Connect

Ensure that only authorized clients have appropriate access to system resources by using RBAC with Kafka Connect.

Datasheet

Confluent Cloud Datasheet

Confluent Cloud is the industry's only cloud-native, fully managed event streaming platform powered by Apache Kafka.

White Paper

Partner Development Guide for Kafka Connect

Best practices for developing a connector using Kafka Connect APIs.

Brief

Real-time Data Integration into Kafka - HVR and Confluent

This brief describes a solution for data integration and replication in real time and continuously into Kafka, in partnership with HVR and Confluent.

Case Study

Alight Solutions Increases the Pace of Digital Deliveries with a Unified Data Platform

Alight Solutions, recently embarked on an initiative to align the company’s internal organization with its next-generation digital strategy.

White Paper

Monitoring Your Apache Kafka® Deployment End-to-End

In this white paper, you will learn how you can monitor your Apache Kafka deployments like a pro, the 7 common questions you'll need to answer, what requirements to look for in a monitoring solution and key advantages of the Confluent Control Center.

Brief

Accelerate Insights with Real-Time Event Streaming with Qlik and Confluent

This brief describes a solution to efficiently prepare data streams for Kafka and Confluent with Qlik Data Integration for CDC Streaming.

White Paper

Reference Architecture: Confluent and MongoDB

This reference architecture documents the MongoDB and Confluent integration including detailed tutorials for getting started with the integration, guidelines for deployment, and unique considerations to keep in mind when working with these two technologies.

Report

Connecting the Dots: Getting Maximum Value From Data

Responsive, relevant, timely, insightful. Agencies are asking a lot of their data these days and treating it as a strategic asset. It’s a big job and a big change for agencies, which have been dealing with disconnected data silos, legacy applications and practices, and under-resourced data operations for decades. Making that shift from data as a passive to an active asset takes some work, but it pays off. In this report, you’ll learn how to use event streaming to process, store, analyze and act on both historical and real-time data in one place. You'll also explore: Data access and management challenges agencies are facing and how to address them. How the CDC tracked COVID test events to maximize value from COVID testing. Best practices on data analysis and productivity.

Datasheet

Confluent Operations Training for Apache Kafka

In this three-day hands-on course, you will learn how to build, manage, and monitor clusters using industry best-practices developed by the world’s foremost Apache Kafka experts.

eBook

The Ongoing Disruption of Insurance: A Shift to Real-Time Streaming Data

Most insurance companies today are somewhere along the spectrum of digital transformation, finding new ways to use data while staying within the confines of strict regulatory complexity and capital requirements. But only a few insurtech leaders and innovative startups have really tapped into real-time streaming data as the architecture behind these efforts. In this free ebook, learn about three pivotal insurance business uses for event streaming: reducing operating costs with automated digital experiences, personalizing the customer experience, and mitigating risks with real-time fraud and security analytics.

eBook

Insuring the Future Through Data

To succeed, insurance companies must unify data from all their channels that may be scattered across multiple legacy systems as well as new digital applications. Without the ability to access and combine all this data in real time, delivering a truly modern insurance experience while assessing fast-changing risks can be an uphill battle. Our eBook explains how event streaming, an emerging technology for analyzing event data in real time, can help insurers compete with their insuretech peers. You will learn how combining event streaming from Apache Kafka® and Confluent with Google Cloud can help you.

White Paper

Real Time is Happening: Discover How Data Streaming Can Revolutionize Your Business

Businesses are discovering that they can create new business opportunities as well as make their existing operations more efficient using real-time data at scale. Learn how real-time data streams is revolutionizing your business.

Report

2017 Apache Kafka® Report

This survey focuses on why and how companies are using Apache Kafka and streaming data and the impact it has on their business.

Brief

Event-driven business: How to handle the flow of event data

Get key research stats on why CIOs are turning to streaming data for a competitive advantage.

Brief

Event driven enterprise architecture - DataStax and Confluent

This brief describes a modern datacenter to manage the velocity and variety of data with an event driven enterprise architecture with DataStax and Confluentj

eBook

Organizing for Enterprise Event Streaming: The New Central Nervous System of Business

In this ebook, you’ll learn about the adoption curve of event streaming and how to gain momentum and effect change within your organization. Learn how to wield event streaming to convert your enterprise to a real-time digital business, responsive to customers and able to create business outcomes in ways never before possible.

White Paper

Microservices in the Apache Kafka® Ecosystem

This white paper provides a brief overview of how microservices can be built in the Apache Kafka ecosystem.

eBook

Kafka: The Definitive Guide

Learn how to take full advantage of Apache Kafka®, the distributed, publish-subscribe queue for handling real-time data feeds.

White Paper

Reference Architecture: Confluent and Snowflake

This document provides an overview of Confluent and Snowflake’s integration, a detailed tutorial for getting started with the integration, and unique considerations to keep in mind when working with these two technologies.

White Paper

Streams and Tables: Two Sides of the Same Coin

In this paper, we introduce the Dual Streaming Model. The model presents the result of an operator as a stream of successive updates, which induces a duality of results and streams.

Datasheet

Confluent Developer Training: Building Kafka Solutions

In this three-day hands-on course you will learn how to build an application that can publish data to, and subscribe to data from, an Apache Kafka cluster.

Brief

Event Streaming and Graph Databases - Neo4j and Confluent

This brief describes a solution with Neo4js graph database and Confluent Platform.

Case Study

Building Real-time Retail & Supply Chain IoT Platforms with Confluent Cloud

With its ViZixⓇ item chain management platform, Mojix is helping major retailers store, analyze and act on inventory data collected from IoT sensor streams in real time.

Brief

High-throughput Low-latency NoSQL solution - Scylla and Confluent

This brief describes a solution for real-time data streaming with ScyllaDB's NoSQL database paired with Confluent Platform.

Brief

Government’s Data Platform for Modern Applications

The Confluent event-streaming platform enables government organizations to unlock and repurpose their existing data for countless modern applications and use cases.

White Paper

Confluent Cloud Security Controls

Confluent implements layered security controls designed to protect and secure Confluent Cloud customer data, incorporating multiple logical and physical security controls that include access management, least privilege, strong authentication, logging and monitoring, vulnerability management, and bug bounty programs.

Brief

Streaming Data Analysis and Visualization - Kinetica and Confluent

This brief describes streaming data analysis and visualization accelerated by Kinetica's GPU in-memory technology, in partnership with Confluent.

Datasheet

Confluent Platform Datasheet

An overview of the enterprise-ready event streaming platform.

White Paper

Fives Stages to Streaming Platform Adoption

Use cases for streaming platforms vary from improving the customer experience - we have synthesized some common themes of streaming maturity and have identified five stages of adoption

Brief

End-to-End Streaming Analytics - Imply and Confluent

This brief describes an end-to-end streaming analytics solution with Imply, Druid providing the data querying and visualizations and Kafka data streaming.

White Paper

Apache Kafka® in the Automotive Industry

Spending time with many OEMs and suppliers as well as technology vendors in the IoT segment, Kai Waehner gives an overview on current challenges in the automotive industry and on a variety of use cases for event-driven architectures.

Demo

On Demand Demo: Kafka streaming in 10 Minutes on Confluent Cloud

In this 30-minute session, hear from top Kafka experts who will show you how to easily create your own Kafka cluster and use out-of-the-box components like ksqlDB to rapidly develop event streaming applications.

Online Talk

Microservices with Confluent

Microservices have become a dominant architectural paradigm for building systems in the enterprise, but they are not without their tradeoffs.

Online Talk

Live on Stage 2023 with Siemens & Brose: Unlocking the Potential of Industry 4.0 and IIoT

This panel of industry experts discuss their everyday usage of data streaming within their company, how they got there, and what use cases they will be focussing on further down the road of real-time.

Online Talk

Live on Stage 2023: From Telco to TechCo? How Telcos Are Shaping the Future of Communication with Data Streaming

This panel of industry experts discuss their everyday usage of data streaming within their company, how they got there, and what use cases they will be focussing on further down the road of real-time.

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Data Streaming in Real Life: Insurance

Explore the state of data streaming in the insurance industry, which constantly needs innovation due to changing market environments and changes in customer expectations.

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Deliver Better Product Recommendations with Real-Time AI & Vector Search

Join this demo webinar to see how Confluent and Rockset power a critical architecture for efficiently developing and scaling AI applications built on real-time streaming data.

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Layanan Mikro & Apache Kafka®

Arsitektur aplikasi bergeser dari sistem perusahaan monolitik ke pendekatan yang fleksibel, dapat diskalakan, dan digerakkan oleh peristiwa. Selamat datang di era layanan mikro.

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Microservices & Apache Kafka®

Application architecture is shifting from monolithic enterprise systems to flexible, scalable, event-driven approaches. Welcome to the microservices era.

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Show Me How: Build Streaming Data Pipelines from SQL Server to MongoDB

In this hands-on session with Q&A, you’ll learn how to build streaming pipelines to connect, process, govern, and share real-time data flows for cloud databases. The demo shows how an ecommerce company uses streaming pipelines for Customer 360 and personalization.

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Australian State Government - Data Streaming Forum

Data streaming is an infrastructure revolution that is fundamentally changing how Departments and Agencies think about data and build applications.

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Full Stream Ahead - Live from Current 2023

Join us over 3 days from September 26th to 28th for the "Full Stream Ahead - Live from Current 2023" webinar series.

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Show Me How: Multi-Cloud Architectures

Join us to learn how to set up Confluent Cloud to provide a singular and global data plane connecting all of your systems, applications, datastores, and environments – regardless of whether systems are running on-prem, in the cloud, or both.

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Data Streaming & Airlines: A Match Made in Heaven (and on the Ground)

Explore use cases, architectures, and success stories for data streaming in the aviation industry, including airlines, airports, global distribution systems (GDS), aircraft manufacturers, and more.

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How DISH Scaled Their Data Streaming Platform and Data Mesh to Support 5G

Learn how DISH’ Wireless scaled their data streaming platform to power a new smart 5G network and deliver next-gen apps and valuable network data products. Hear why DISH chose Confluent Cloud and delve deeper into their 5G architecture.

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Data Streaming in Real-Life: Utilities & Energy

Explore the latest data streaming trends and architectures, including edge, datacenter, hybrid, and multicloud solutions.

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Data in Motion Tour 2023 ANZ Livestream

Learn how Confluent helps you manage Apache Kafka® — without its complexity.

Join Confluent for the opportunity to hear from customers, network with your peers and ecosystem partners, learn from Kafka experts, and roll up your sleeves with interactive demonstrations.

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DIMT Reflections - A Data in Motion Recap

Straight from the event floor to you, DIMT Reflections - A Data in Motion Recap discussion series showcases the best of the best content from the Data in Motion tour. Giving you access to conversations and content from the best the APAC region has to offer.

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Show Me How - Bring Your Own Connectors to Confluent Cloud

In this hands-on session you’ll learn about Custom Connectors for connecting to any data system or apps without needing to manage Kafka Connect infrastructure. We’ll show you how to upload your connector plugin, configure the connector, and monitor the logs and metrics pages ensure high performance.

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Build a Real-Time Observability Platform in the Cloud

Demo webinar: Build a real-time analytics app to query and visualize critical observability metrics including latencies, error rates, and overall service health status. See how it’s done with Confluent Cloud and Imply Polaris, a fully managed Apache Druid® service.

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Elevating Kafka: Driving operational excellence with Albertsons + Forrester

Join Forrester analyst Mike Gualtieri and Albertsons Senior Director of Omni-Channel Architecture Nitin Saksena to hear how the market trends driving the adoption of data streaming and how Albertsons has implemented a plethora of real-time use cases to deliver differentiated customer experiences.

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Modern Practices for Agile Data Mesh Architectures

Learn the benefits of data mesh, how to best scale your data architecture, empower real-time data governance, and best practices from experts at Confluent and Microsoft.

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Show Me How: Unlock Real-Time Analytics with Streaming Data Pipelines and Change Data Capture (CDC)

In this hands-on session we’ll show how to enrich customer data with real-time product, order, and demographic data every time a new order is created. You’ll learn how to connect data sources, process data streams with ksqlDB, and govern streaming pipelines with Confluent.

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How to Expedite Your Microservices Development with Stream Governance

Data governance is critical, but how do you govern data streams in real-time? Learn how ACERTUS drove faster microservices development, unlocked streaming data pipelines and real-time data integration across 4K+ schemas using Confluent’s Stream Governance.

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How to Build Your Native Integration with Confluent Cloud and Grow Through Data Streams

Partner webinar: Meet with Confluent’s Kafka experts to build your step-by-step plan for integrating with Confluent Cloud and accelerating customer growth on your platform through real-time data streams.

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Fundamentals for Apache Kafka®

In this three-part series, you’ll get an overview of what Kafka is, what it's used for, and the core concepts that enable it to power a highly scalable, available and resilient real-time event streaming platform.

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How EVO Banco Transformed Fraud Detection with Data Streaming and Machine Learning

Join us for a unique insider look into the complex world of fraud mitigation in banking. In this session, you will learn how Spain’s leading digital bank, Evo Banco, is paving the way in predictive fraud detection with data streaming and machine learning.

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How to Build Streaming Pipelines for Cloud Databases

Maygol will walk us through the new streaming data pipeline demo that showcases a finserv use case showcasing streaming data pipelines between Oracle database and RabbitMQ on-prem systems, to migrate data to MongoDB on the cloud.

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Data Streaming in Real Life: Public Sector

Explore general trends like customer-driven in-store experiences, social & locality platforms, and how data streaming helps modernize and innovate customer experiences as well as operational efficiencies.

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Data Streaming in Real Life: Digital Natives

Explore general trends like customer-driven in-store experiences, social & locality platforms, and how data streaming helps modernize and innovate customer experiences as well as operational efficiencies.

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Demo: Design Event-Driven Microservices for Cloud

Join this webinar to see how the legacy of traditional implementations still impacts microservice architectures today.

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Why Your Fraud Detection and Security Tools Need Data Streaming (India)

With fraud growing at exponential rates and costing financial firms billions of dollars in losses, we take a deeper look into the role timely data and real-time context plays in risk analytics and fraud mitigation.

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Data Streaming in Real-Life: Telecommunication

Explore general trends and how data streaming architectures are used, included edge, data center, hybrid and multi cloud helps to modernize and innovate the industry.

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Data Streaming in Real-Life: Retail

Explore general trends like customer-driven in-store experiences, social & locality platforms, and how data streaming helps modernize and innovate customer experiences as well as operational efficiencies.

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Data Streaming in Real-Life: Financial Services

Explore general trends and how data streaming helps modernize legacy architectures to enable digitalization in regulated industries.

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Data Streaming in Real-Life: Manufacturing

Explore general trends like software-defined manufacturing and how data streaming helps modernize and innovate the entire engineering and sales lifecycle.

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Data Streaming Report – A Conversation with Jay Kreps

Data serves as the lifeblood of modern businesses, propelling them toward unprecedented success. With data volumes growing at a breakneck speed, the ability to harness its power in real time has become the key to driving greater business insight and accelerating innovation.

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Why Your Fraud Detection and Security Tools Need Data Streaming

In this webinar, we’ll be joined by guest speakers from Forrester and Scotiabank to discuss how real-time data streaming is advancing fraud detection and driving smarter decision-making across the Financial Services industry.

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What's New in Confluent Platform 7.4

Confluent Platform 7.4 enables Apache Kafka® to scale to millions of partitions. It simplifies architectures and accelerates time to market with self-service tooling and codified best practices for developers, ensuring consistent and accurate data.

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How cluster scaling is made 10x easier with Confluent Cloud

Your data streaming platform needs to be truly elastic to match with customer demand. It should scale up with your business’s peak traffic, and back down as demand shrinks.

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Retain Data Infinitely Without Operational Burdens with 10x More Scalable Kafka Storage

Join this webinar to learn how Confluent Cloud relieves these operational considerations with infinite storage for Kafka that’s 10x more scalable and high-performing.

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Stream Data with Confluent Cloud into Databricks

In this webinar, we’ll walk through how to build streaming data pipelines to Databricks across on-prem and cloud environments using Confluent and our ecosystem of pre-built connectors, with ksqlDB for real-time stream processing.

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Running Kafka efficiently: Scaling streaming data pipelines in Hypergrowth FinTech

In this webinar, hear directly from KOR's CTO to learn why they chose Confluent over MSK to serve as a single source of truth for four decades’ worth of trade reporting data to stay in compliance with financial regulations.

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Simplifying Event-Driven Architectures with Confluent and AWS Lambda

During this webinar, learn how to simplify event-driven, serverless architectures with Confluent and AWS Lambda. You'll see how to scale seamlessly, integrate AWS Lambda with Confluent, and build apps faster with Confluent’s robust connector ecosystem.

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Microservices and Apache Kafka

This three-part online talk series introduces key concepts, use cases, and best practices for getting started with microservices.

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Real-time ETL Made Easy with Confluent

Real-time ETL with Apache Kafka® doesn’t have to be a challenge. Join this webinar and see how with Confluent Cloud. With out-of-the-box source & sink connectors and SQL-based stream processing, all fully managed on a complete platform for data in motion.

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Demo: How to Build a Context-Aware, Real-Time Fraud Detection Solution in Confluent

In this demo, you will learn how to transform your existing fraud tools with the power of real time data streaming and processing in Confluent. See how to easily connect, curate and integrate relevant data into your fraud systems to build a faster, smarter fraud detection solution.

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Why Your Fraud Detection and Security Tools Need Data Streaming

In this webinar you will hear from industry experts on how real-time data streaming is advancing fraud detection and driving smarter decision-making across the Financial Services industry.

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Real-time Streaming for Government and the Public Sector

Data streaming is an infrastructure revolution that is fundamentally changing how public sector organisations think about data and build applications. Rather than viewing data as stored records or transient messages, data could be considered to be a continually updating stream of events.

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Maximize Streaming Data Quality with Stream Governance

Learn how to ensure high data quality, discoverability, and compatibility for your real-time data streams on Confluent Cloud using Stream Governance. Confluent’s Stream Governance team will demo the latest features and enhanced capabilities, along with showing how you can upgrade in a few clicks.

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Connect, Process, and Share Trusted Data Faster than Ever

This demo webinar will provide everything you need to get started with the latest updates to Confluent Cloud, our cloud-native data streaming platform.

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How Walmart Made Real-Time Inventory & Replenishment a Reality

This fireside chat will cover Suman’s learnings from implementing 2 critical use cases at Walmart that continue to play a critical role in customer satisfaction: real-time inventory and real-time replenishment.

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Show Me How: Build a Real-Time Slot Machine with Confluent Cloud

In this workshop session, you will follow along with an instructor as you walk through the design, build, and implementation process with a simple, hypothetical application using Confluent Cloud.

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Data Mesh: From Concept to Implementation

What is data mesh and why is it gaining rapid traction among data teams?

Join us on May 17 to talk with Michele Goetz, VP, Principal Analyst at Forrester and Raiffeisen Bank International for a deep dive.

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Show Me How: Build Streaming Data Pipelines for Cloud Databases

In this hands-on session with Q&A, you’ll learn how to build streaming data pipelines to connect, process, and govern real-time data flows for cloud databases. The demo shows a FinServ company using streaming pipelines for real-time fraud detection.

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Confluent Cloud: Data Warehousing with Amazon Redshift

In this webinar, we’ll walk through how you can start immediately migrating to Amazon Redshift across on-prem and cloud environments using Confluent, our ecosystem of pre-built connectors, and ksqlDB for real-time data processing.

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Application Modernization Through Event Driven Microservices

During this webinar, Rishi Doerga, Senior Solutions Engineer at Confluent, discusses how event streaming can help modernize your applications, enabling you to become more agile, innovative, and responsive to your customer's needs.

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