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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

An overview of Confluent’s Core Product Pillars.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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...

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

This brief describes a modern data architecture with Kafka and MongoDB

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Best practices for developing a connector using Kafka Connect APIs.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

An overview of the enterprise-ready event streaming platform.

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

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

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.

In this webinar, you’ll learn about best practices for building a data mesh from analyst Michele Goetz, the principles for building better data pipelines for a data mesh architecture and how streaming pipelines helped Lumen implement a data mesh and architect a democratized data marketplace.

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

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

This webinar explores the state of data streaming for the Telecom Sector:

• how data streaming provides the ability to integrate and correlate data in real time at any scale across telco projects
• which enterprise architectures are trending in the telco industry globally

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.

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.

In this two-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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Join us to hear how Confluent enables our customers to use real-time data processing against Apache Kafka®, leverage easy-to-use yet powerful interactive interfaces for stream processing, and build integration pipelines without needing to write code.

From batch to real time—learn about and see a demo on how to build streaming pipelines with CDC to stream and process data in real time, from an on-prem Oracle DB and cloud PostgreSQL to Snowflake.

This webinar explores the state of data streaming for the Financial Services Industry:

• What disruptive trends in financial services are driving the pace of innovation
• How data streaming provides the ability to integrate and correlate data in real-time at any scale.

This webinar explores the state of data streaming for the Retail Industry:

• How data streaming provides the ability to integrate and correlate data in real-time at any scale.
• Which enterprise architectures are trending in the retail industry globally

This webinar explores the state of data streaming for the Manufacturing Industry:

• How data streaming provides the ability to integrate and correlate data in real-time at any scale
• Which enterprise architectures are trending in the manufacturing industry globally

In this hands-on session, you’ll learn how to integrate your IBM mainframe with Confluent in order to unlock Z System data for use in real-time, cloud-native applications.

Partners Tech Talks are webinars where subject matter experts from a Partner talk about a specific use case or project. The goal of Tech Talks is to provide best practices and applications insights, along with inspiration, and help you stay up to date about innovations in confluent ecosystem.

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

Watch this webinar and transform your data pipeline processes.

In this hands-on session with live Q&A, you’ll learn how to build streaming data pipelines to connect, process, and govern real-time data flows for data warehouses. The demo shows an e-commerce company using streaming pipelines for customer 360.

This webinar covers the operational use case and learnings from SecurityScorecard’s journey from batch to building streaming data pipelines with Confluent.

In this session, you'll learn how to create a real-time fraud detection solution in Confluent. The demo will illustrate an "account takeover" scenario to show in-stream detection and analysis of compromised account activity.

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

Customers expect businesses to respond to both their implicit and explicit cues instantaneously. Gone are the days when a business could run a batch process overnight to analyze customer orders, preferences, app downloads, page views, and clicks. They must now respond in real time.

In this session, we'll explore how Confluent helps companies modernize their database strategy with Confluent Cloud and modern Azure Data Services like Cosmos DB. Confluent accelerates getting data to the cloud and reduces costs by implementing a central-pipeline architecture using Apache Kafka.

Migrating, innovating, or building in the cloud requires retailers to rethink their data infrastructure. Confluent and Azure enable companies to set data in motion across any system, at any scale, in near real-time.

Confluent Infinite Storage allows you to store data in your Kafka cluster indefinitely, opening up new use cases and simplifying your architecture. This hands-on workshop will show you how to achieve real-time and historical processing with a single data streaming platform.

In this webinar, we present a conceptual model for how to think strategically about data mesh: What is it? When to consider it for your business?

Watch this webinar to find out how a data mesh can bring much-needed order to a system in both cases, resulting in a more mature, manageable, and evolvable data architecture.

See how Extend pairs Confluent's data streaming platform with AWS serverless services to build scalable data applications.

Learn how ACERTUS leverages Confluent Cloud and ksqlDB for their streaming data pipelines, data pre-processing and transformations, data warehouse modernization, and their latest data mesh framework project.

In this hands-on session you’ll learn about building trusted shared services with Confluent—a better way to allow safe and secure data sharing. We’ll show you how to enable trusted shared services through OAuth 2.0, role-based access control, and Cloud Client Quotas.

This event-driven microservices webinar will have refreshed messaging around how event-driven microservices is an important use case for Confluent. Maygol will walk through a brand-new demo exclusively focused on an event-driven microservices use case.

Confluent Infinite Storage allows you to store data in your Kafka cluster indefinitely, opening up new use cases and simplifying your architecture. This hands-on workshop will show you how to achieve real-time and historical processing with a single data streaming platform.

Learn how Apache Kafka® on Confluent Cloud streams massive data volumes to time series collections via the MongoDB Connector for Apache Kafka®.

Learn the latest cost and time-saving data estate modernization best practices with Azure and Confluent.

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.

In this session, you’ll learn how to accelerate your digital transformation using real-time data.

Confluent’s Stream Designer is a new visual canvas for rapidly building, testing, and deploying streaming data pipelines powered by Kafka.

Learn about the new key features in the Confluent Cloud Q1 2023 launch - Centralized Identity Management (OAuth), Enhanced RBAC, Client Quotas and more that enable you to build a secured shared services data streaming platform.

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.

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.

Every aspect of the financial services industry is undergoing some form of transformation. By leveraging the power of real-time data streaming, financial firms can drive personalized customer experiences, proactively mitigate cyber risk, and drive regulatory compliance.

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

Join Ryan James, Chief Data Officer of Vitality Group, to learn how Vitality Group future-proofed its event-driven microservices with Confluent and AWS

Modernizing your data warehouse doesn’t need to be long or complicated. In this webinar, we’ll walk through how you can start migrating to Databricks immediately across on-prem and cloud environments using Confluent, our ecosystem of pre-built connectors, and ksqlDB for real-time data processing.

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.

See how Extend pairs Confluent's data streaming platform with AWS serverless services to build scalable data applications.

This demo will showcase how to use Confluent as a streaming data pipeline between operational databases. We’ll walk through an example of how to connect data and capture change data in real-time from a legacy database such as Oracle to a modern cloud-native database like MongoDB using Confluent.

In this hands-on session you’ll learn about Streaming Data Pipelines which is a better way to build real-time pipelines. The demo shows how an e-commerce company can use a Streaming Data Pipeline for real-time data warehousing.

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.

Listen to this webinar to learn how Confluent Cloud enables your developer community.

In fast-moving businesses companies must quickly integrate Kafka in their workloads to respond to customers in real time. Confluent Cloud is a fully managed data streaming platform available everywhere you need it. Join us in these interactive sessions to learn more about Confluent Cloud.

Tune in to discover how you can avoid common mistakes that could set back your event-driven ambitions—and how Confluent’s fully managed platform can help get you where you need to be faster and with less operational headaches.

Listen to this webinar to earn how to build and deploy data pipelines faster while combining and enriching data in motion with Confluent & Azure Cosmos DB.

Listen back and view the presentations from the Data in Motion Tour 2022 - EMEA.

Data Streaming and Apache Kafka® are two of the world's most relevant and talked about technologies. With the buzz continuing to grow, join this webinar to hear predictions for the 'Top Five Use Cases & Architectures for Data In Motion in 2023'.

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.

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

Every aspect of the financial services industry is undergoing some form of transformation. By leveraging the power of real-time data streaming, financial firms can drive personalized customer experiences, proactively mitigate cyber risk, and drive regulatory compliance.

In this hands-on workshop, we’ll show you how to augment your existing SIEM and SOAR solutions to deliver contextually rich data, automate and orchestrate threat detection, reduce false positives, and transform the way you respond to threats and cyber attacks in real time.

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.

Register now to attend this informative online talk and discover Kai’s top five cutting-edge use cases and architectures that are at the forefront of real-time data streaming initiatives.

Join this demo to see how Confluent’s Stream Governance suite delivers a self-service experience that helps all your teams put data streams to work.

Join Jay Kreps for a deep dive into data streaming and real-time technology, share best practices and use cases, as well as explore the vision and future of data streaming. Data streaming is foundational to next-gen architecture.

Demand for fast results and decision-making has generated the need for real-time event streaming and processing of data adoption in financial institutions to be on the competitive edge. Apache Kafka® and the Confluent Platform are designed to solve the problems associated with traditional systems

Network Analytics in a Big Data World: Why telco networks and data mesh need to become one (and how data streaming can save the internet) with Swisscom, NTT, INSA Lyon, and Imply in a panel discussion with Field CTO Kai Waehner.

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

Developers can focus on building new features and applications, liberated from the operational burden of managing their own Kafka clusters. Join us in these interactive sessions to learn more about Confluent Cloud.

In today’s fast-paced digital world, customers want businesses to anticipate their needs in real time. To meet these heightened expectations, organizations are using Apache Kafka®, a modern, real-time data streaming platform.

Join Noam Berman, Software Engineer at Wix, for an insight-packed webinar in which he discusses Wix's growing use of Apache Kafka® in recent years.

Kafka Streams transforms your streams of data, be it a stateless transformation like masking personally identifiable information, or a complex stateful operation like aggregating across time windows, or a lookup table.

Confluent’s Stream Designer is a new visual canvas for rapidly building, testing, and deploying streaming data pipelines powered by Kafka.

We will discuss Confluent’s applicability to SIEM and shows an end-to-end demo of Confluent and Confluent Sigma, an open source project built by Confluent for processing streams of SIEM data in action, showing how to bridge the gap between old-school SIEM solutions and a next-gen architecture.

Tune in to discover how you can avoid common mistakes that could set back your event-driven ambitions—and how Confluent’s fully managed platform can help get you where you need to be faster and with less operational headaches.

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

Modernize your database and move to the cloud by connecting multicloud and hybrid data to Amazon Aurora in real time.

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.

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.

Tune in to hear Suman share best practices for building real-time use-cases in retail!

Raiffeisen International bank is scaling an event-driven architecture across the group as part of a bank wide transformation program. As technology and architecture leader RBI plays a key role in banking in CEE which will be shared with the audience in this webinar.

This webinar will walk through a story of a Bank who uses an Oracle database to store sensitive customer information and RabbitMQ as the message broker for credit card transaction events.

Kafka is a platform used to collect, store, and process streams of data at scale, with numerous use cases. Join us in this live, interactive session, to learn more about Apache Kafka.

Confluent Cloud alleviates the burden of managing Apache Kafka, Schema Registry, Connect, and ksqlDB so teams can effectively focus on modern app development and deliver immediate value with your real-time use cases.

In this webinar, Dan Rosanova, Group Product Manager at Confluent, will cover:

• Why not all fully managed services for Kafka are created equal
• How Confluent Cloud eliminates your Kafka Ops burden
• How Confluent Cloud unlocks time and focus for other business needs

This two part series provides 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.

Many organizations have data locked away in their on-premises data center, making it impossible to take full advantage of modern cloud services. In this session, you’ll learn how to stream your on-prem data to the cloud in near real time.

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

Kafka is now a technology developers and architects are adopting with enthusiasm. And it’s often not just a good choice, but a technology enabling meaningful improvements in complex, evolvable systems that need to respond to the world in real time. But surely it’s possible to do wrong!

This webinar offers suggestions for best practices, the kinds of tools you’ll need, and how to get your organization started down a path toward a data mesh.

We’ve got an exciting line up of sessions designed to get you up to speed on all things Confluent Cloud! You’re sure to gain invaluable insights, no matter how many you’re able to join.

Confluent’s Stream Governance suite establishes trust in the real-time data moving throughout your business and delivers an easy, self-service experience for multiple teams to discover, understand, and put these streams to work.

The demand for fast results and decision making, have generated the need for real-time event streaming and processing of data adoption in financial institutions to be on the competitive edge.

Listen back and view the presentations from the Data in Motion Tour 2021 - EMEA.

Providing a seamless digital experience is what our customers have come to expect. As we step into 2022, our businesses are being challenged to evolve even further to maintain that competitive edge.

Kai Waehner, Field CTO at Confluent, will deliver his predictions on the hottest and most important data in motion use cases for 2022.

Kafka is now a technology developers and architects are adopting with enthusiasm. And it’s often not just a good choice, but a technology enabling meaningful improvements in complex, evolvable systems that need to respond to the world in real time. But surely it’s possible to do wrong!

Confluent hosted a technical thought leadership session to discuss how leading organisations move to real-time architecture to support business growth and enhance customer experience.

To help organisations understand how data in motion can transform business, Watch ‘The Strategic Importance of Data in Motion’ hosted by Tech UK.

In this online talk, we will answer the question, 'How much can we do with Kafka in 30 minutes of coding?'

In this webinar, see how Confluent’s data warehouse modernization solution leverages the Azure Synapse connector to help enterprises create a bridge across your Azure cloud and on-prem environments. We’ll explain how the solution works, and show you a demo!

Apache Kafka® was built with the vision to become the central nervous system that makes real-time data available to all the applications that need to use it, with numerous use cases like stock trading and fraud detection, and real-time analytics.

Today’s data sources are fast-moving and dispersed, which can leave businesses and engineers struggling to deliver data and applications in real-time. While this can be hard, we know it doesn’t have to be - because we’ve already made it easy.

Learn more about Confluent Platform 7.0 and how Cluster Linking enables you to leverage modern cloud-based platforms and build hybrid architectures with a secure, reliable, and cost-effective bridge.

Hivecell and Confluent deliver the promise of bringing a piece of Confluent Cloud right there to your desk and deliver managed Kafka at the edge for the first time at scale

Retailers that have embraced the opportunities of the prolonged pandemic are emerging leaner and stronger than before. Hear Lawrence Stoker, Senior Solutions Engineer at Confluent, walk through the data in motion use cases that are re-inventing the retail business.

Listen to this On-Demand online talk to hear how BT's digital strategy is becoming an event-driven business.

The world is changing! Organisations are now more globally integrated than ever before and new problems need to be solved. As systems scale and migrate into the cloud, those seeking to infiltrate enterprise systems are presented with new and more frequent opportunities to succeed.

We invite you to join Jesse Miller, our lead Product Manager for Health+, in an upcoming webinar to learn about how Health+ can optimize your deployment, give you the highest level of monitoring visibility, and provide intelligent alerts and accelerated support when you need it.

Forrester recently released a Total Economic Impact report that identified $2.5M+ in savings, a 257% ROI, and <6 month payback for organizations that used Confluent Cloud instead of Open Source Apache Kafka.

This webinar explores use cases and architectures for Kafka in the cybersecurity space, also featuring a very prominent example of combining Confluent and Splunk with Intel’s Cyber Intelligence Platform (CIP).

In Sencrop’s case, working with IoT at the “edge” means collecting and providing accurate data from the farm fields. Find out how AWS and Confluent Cloud are powering this real-time processing of data for anomaly detection and weather prediction.

Join Kai Waehner, Field CTO at Confluent, for an online talk in which he will explore the latest data in motion & Apache Kafka® use cases for the defence industry.

You’ll walk away with an understanding of how to modernize your SIEM architecture for higher throughput, lower latency, and more cost efficiency. You’ll also be able to run the demo and explore a series of hands-on labs for yourself and dig into the technical details.

Learn how companies will leverage event-driven data streaming, Apache Kafka, Confluent, and other tools to meet the demands of real-time markets, increased regulations, heightened customer expectations, and much more.

How do you mobilize your data securely and cost effectively to power a global business in real time?

In this session, we'll explore how to build a serverless, event-driven architectures by using AWS Lambda with Kafka. We'll discuss how event-based compute like Lambda can be used to decrease the complexity of running, scaling, and operating stream-based architectures when building new applications.

We’ll discuss the challenges Storyblocks attempted to overcome with their monolithic apps and REST API architecture as the business grew rapidly, and the advantages they gained from using Confluent Event-driven architecture to power their mission-critical microservices.

In this session we will discuss how Apache Kafka has become the de facto standard for event driven architecture, its community support and the scale at which some customers are running it.

In this demo, we’ll show you how to modernize your database and move to the cloud by connecting multi-cloud and hybrid data to Google Cloud SQL in real time.

In this demo, we will show you how to connect on-premises and multi-cloud data to Azure Cosmos DB, process that data in a stream before it reaches Azure Cosmos DB, and connect your Azure Cosmos DB data to any application.

In this demo, we’ll walk through how you can start building a persistent pipeline for continuous migration from a legacy database to a modern, cloud database. You’ll see how to use Confluent and Amazon Aurora to create a bridge across your Amazon cloud and on-prem environments.

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

The Cloud - as we all know - offers the perfect solution to many challenges. Many organisations are already using fully-managed cloud services such as AWS S3, DynamoDB, or Redshift. This creates an opportunity to implement fully-managed Kafka with ease using Confluent Cloud on AWS.

Join Joseph Morais, Staff Cloud Partner SA, and Braeden Quirante, Cloud Partner SA at Confluent as they discuss Apache Kafka and Confluent.

Join us for this webinar to see how Confluent and Databricks enable companies to set data in motion across any system, at any scale, in near real-time.

In this 30-minute session, top Kafka experts will show everything for quickly getting started with real-time data movement ranging from on-demand cluster creation and data generation through to real-time stream processing and account management.

This demo webinar will show you how Confluent is the world’s most trusted data streaming platform, with resilience, security, compliance, and privacy built-in by default.

Leverage Confluent Cloud and Google Cloud Platform products such as BigQuery to modernize your data in minutes, setting your data in motion.

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

Interested in bringing stream processing to your organization, but unclear on how to get started? Designed to help you go from idea to proof of concept, this online talk dives into a few of the most popular stream processing use cases and workloads to help get you up and running with ksqlDB.

This webinar will address the problems with current approaches and show you how you can leverage Confluent’s platform for data in motion to make your data architecture fast, cost-effective, resilient, and secure.

In this webinar, we'll introduce you to Confluent Platform 7.0, which offers Cluster Linking to enable you to leverage modern cloud-based platforms and build hybrid architectures with a secure, reliable, and cost-effective bridge between on-prem and cloud environments.

Learn how to break data silos and accelerate time to market for new applications by connecting valuable data from your existing systems on-prem to your AWS environment using Confluent.

Today, with Confluent, enterprises can stream data across hybrid and multicloud environments to Amazon Redshift, powering real-time analysis while reducing total cost of ownership and time to value.

In this webinar, we'll introduce you to Confluent Platform 6.2, which offers Health+, a new feature that includes intelligent alerting and cloud-based monitoring tools to reduce the risk of downtime, streamline troubleshooting, surface key metrics, and accelerate issue resolution.

This webinar presents the decision making framework we use to coach our customers toward the most impactful and lowest cost PoC built on Kafka. The framework considers business impact, technology learning, existing resources, technical backgrounds, and cost to ensure the greatest chance of success.

Stream processing is a data processing technology used to collect, store, and manage continuous streams of data as it’s produced or received. Also known as event streaming or complex event processing (CEP), stream processing has grown exponentially in recent years due to its powerful...

Kafka Streams, a scalable stream processing client library in Apache Kafka, defines the processing logic as read-process-write cycles in which all processing state updates and result outputs are captured as log appends.

Learn how Confluent Cluster Linking can seamlessly integrate and share data across these environments in real-time by leveraging your current Confluent/Apache Kafka deployments.

In this webinar, we’ll show you how to leverage Confluent Cloud and Google Cloud Platform products such as BigQuery to streamline your data in minutes, setting your data in motion.

Hear how Fortune 500 companies and leading technology providers are driving real-time innovation through the power of data in motion to deliver richer customer experiences and automate backend operations.

In this short, 20-minute session you’ll gain everything you need to get started with development of your first app based upon event-driven microservices.

Today, with Confluent, enterprises can stream data across hybrid and multicloud environments to Google Cloud’s BigQuery, powering real-time analysis while reducing total cost of ownership and time to value.

In this Online Talk you will learn:

• The rise of the streaming transformation (companies going digital. real-time)
• The resulting rise of Kafka as the technology that powers the streaming transformation
• How streaming relates to other major technology trends like cloud and mobile

During this session you’ll see a pipeline built with data extraction from MongoDB Atlas, real-time transformation with ksqlDB, and simple loading into Snowflake.

In this Online Talk we will discuss some of the key distinctions between Confluent and traditional message oriented middleware. We will go into detail about the architecture of Confluent and how it enables a new level of scalability and throughput.

This webinar presents a solution using Confluent Cloud on Azure, Azure Cosmos DB and Azure Synapse Analytics which can be connected in a secure way within Azure VNET using Azure Private link configured on Kafka clusters.

Watch this webinar to hear more about how Generali, Skechers and Conrad Electronics are using Qlik and Confluent to increase Kafka’s value.

This webinar will cover how you can protect your Kafka use cases with enterprise-grade security, reduce your Kafka operational burden and instead focus on building real-time apps that drive your business forward, and pursue hybrid and multi-cloud architectures with a data platform.

Establish event streaming as the central nervous system of your entire business, perhaps starting with a single use case and eventually architecting a system around event-driven microservices or delivering net-new capabilities like streaming ETL or a comprehensive customer 360.

View this webinar with Confluent and Microsoft experts to:

• Learn how companies are unlocking their data with Kafka
• Understand integration strategies that you can adopt
• See a demo of the Cosmos DB connector and how it can safely deliver data and events in real-time

Learn how teams around the world continue building innovative, mission-critical applications fueled by data in motion. This 4-part webinar series will provide you with bite-sized tutorials for how to get started with all the latest capabilities available on the platform.

With Confluent, you can start streaming data into MongoDB Atlas in just a few easy clicks. Learn how to bring real-time capabilities to your business and applications by setting data in motion.

Watch this session to learn how to streamline infrastructure, increase development velocity, unveil new use cases, and analyze data in real-time.

Discover how Homepoint uses Confluent and Azure to Speed up Loan Processes

Join Confluent and Imply at this joint webinar to explore and learn the use cases about how Apache Kafka® integrates with Imply to bring in data-in-motion and real-time analytics to life.

In this presentation, Lyndon Hedderly, Team Lead of Business Value Consulting at Confluent, will cover how Confluent works with customers to measure the business value of data streaming.

By shifting to a fully managed, cloud-native service for Kafka, you can unlock your teams to work on the projects that make the best use of your data in motion.

In the world that real time analytics, cloud, event streaming and Kafka are hot topics, how does “Data In Motion” come into play? What are the core ideas behind and why is it a big deal to companies that are going through digital transformation?

Listen back and view the presentations from the Confluent Streaming Event Series in Europe 2020

Leveraging Confluent’s fully managed, cloud-native service for Apache Kafka®, DriveCentric has been able to successfully transform and grow their business within a rapidly changing market.

A l’issu de ce talk vous saurez: • Mettre des mots sur les difficultés fondamentales de nos systèmes • Déterminer le rôle du streaming dans vos architecture • Présenter des cas d’usages concrets dans l’usage du streaming

The ASAPIO Connector for Confluent allows true application-based change data capture, along with full database access. This webinar will showcase a SAP- and Confluent-certified solution to enable real-time event streaming for on-prem SAP data.

Learn about the benefits of leveraging a cloud-native service for Kafka, and how you can lower your total cost of ownership (TCO) by 60% with Confluent Cloud while streamlining your DevOps efforts. Priya Shivakumar, Head of Product, Confluent Cloud, will share two short demos.