Confluent Blog

Artificial intelligence (AI) is playing an increasingly important role in social media. It’s helping to improve the user experience, provide better customer support, and help businesses make more informed decisions. The list of AI-driven applications in social media is continually growing...

Personalization has been the gold standard for online customer interactions for a decade. Companies began with rough segmentation based on tagging content to measure marketing interactions and online behavior patterns. Now, with increased data across companies, a huge SaaS footprint of business...

When Grace Molyneux joined Confluent as a sales development representative (SDR), she was new to sales and eager to learn the tricks of the trade. Now, four years later, she’s been able to grow into her role as an account executive...

The provision of healthcare in the U.S., as well as in many other countries, relies on the interaction of three groups: patients, healthcare providers, and healthcare payers. Interoperability is the ability to communicate data across these separate entities...

DISH Wireless generates an exabyte of data per day—more data that the company can process and understand using legacy infrastructure. These massive volumes of network data hold the key to unlocking powerful Industry 4.0 use cases across industries like retail, manufacturing, and automotive.

Artificial intelligence (AI) solutions that deliver results that businesses can count on are few and far between. Historically, they’ve been difficult to use, often requiring significant monitoring and oversight to prevent or mitigate potential mistakes...

Public manufacturers of electric vehicles operate a complex estate of manufacturing systems and integration technologies across heterogeneous environments. As in many enterprises in manufacturing, this architectural complexity makes it difficult...

Ever dealt with a misbehaving consumer group? Imbalanced broker load? This could be due to your consumer group and partitioning strategy!

If you’ve never received spam or scam over any means of communication, you are probably stuck in 1975! Bad actors use any possible means to achieve their ends. Telcos are providing the perfect conduit for them and fighting this plague is not an easy task...

Did you know that women make up only 28% of professionals in the tech industry? What’s more, the percentage of women in tech leadership roles is trending down in recent years. Undoubtedly, the tech industry still has a long way to go in leveling the playing field for women...

The Data Streaming Awards helps recognize and celebrate organizations that are harnessing the power of this innovative technology to transform their businesses—and provide increased value to their customers and communities.

This week, Current | The Next Generation of Kafka Summit kicked off year two of its run as the industry conference for all things Apache Kafka® and real-time data streaming. Hosted in San Jose, the summit welcomed over 2.1k in-person attendees (and 3.5k+ who joined virtually)...

Sarvant Singh, vice president of Data and Emerging Solutions at Penske Transportation Solutions, will tell you that Penske is more than just the yellow trucks you see on the roads. And rightly so...

While the promise of AI has been around for years, there’s been a resurgence thanks to breakthroughs across reusable large language models (LLMs), more accessible machine learning models, more data than ever, and more powerful GPU capabilities. This has sparked organizations to accelerate their AI