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Queues for Apache Kafka® Is Here: Your Guide to Getting Started in Confluent
Confluent announces the General Availability of Queues for Kafka on Confluent Cloud and Confluent Platform with Apache Kafka 4.2. This production-ready feature brings native queue semantics to Kafka through KIP-932, enabling organizations to consolidate streaming and queuing infrastructure while...
AI Tools for Builders — Confluent's MCP Server & Agent Skills
Confluent's AI developer tools are now GA: an open-source local MCP server, a managed MCP server, and Agent Skills. Together they give AI coding assistants direct access to your streaming platform — the tools to act on it and the domain knowledge to build correctly.
New in Confluent Intelligence: Real-Time Context Engine Upgrade, New Model Support, ML Functions, and More
Explore new Confluent Intelligence features: enhanced querying with Real-Time Context Engine, PII detection, sentiment analysis, and support for TimesFM, Anthropic, and Fireworks AI models.
The 7 Practices of a Highly Effective Data Mesh
First, what is a data mesh? “Data mesh” is a hot topic these days when IT infrastructure comes up. Data mesh, in our view, is a concept that involves people, […]
Event Streaming Architectures to Solve Problems for FinServ
Financial institutions generate a constant stream of data: customers opening and closing accounts and making purchases, withdrawals, and deposits. This requires the status and balance of each account to be […]
Bringing Data Into Real Time: What You Missed at Current 2022
At Current 2022 this week, Confluent CEO Jay Kreps welcomed attendees to the brand-new conference. “Where’s Kafka Summit?” he said. “It’s still right here.” As the next generation of Kafka...
New for Confluent Cloud: Stream Designer, Stream Governance Advanced, and More
Our latest set of Confluent Cloud product launches is live and packed full of new features to help businesses innovate faster and more confidently with our real-time data streaming platform. […]
Introducing Stream Designer: The Visual Builder for Streaming Data Pipelines
Data pipelines are critical to the modern, data-driven business, connecting a network of data systems and applications to power both operational and analytical use cases. With the need to promptly […]
What’s New in Apache Kafka 3.3
We are proud to announce the release of Apache Kafka® 3.3 on behalf of the Apache Kafka community. The 3.3 release contains many new features and improvements. This blog post […]
Confluent for Startups: Get It Right from the Start
Great businesses are built on making the right tradeoffs, and that’s particularly true for startups. At an early stage, a startup’s choices around how and where to deploy its limited […]
Ventana Report: Why Centralized Data Governance is Top of Mind
In every industry, real-time data, event-driven systems, and the use of Apache Kafka® have ramped up to the point of being indispensable to business. In fact, streaming data is growing […]
Excited to be back at Google Cloud Next 2022!
Here at Confluent we are excited to be participating once again in Google Cloud Next, taking place from Oct 11-13, 2022. We hope to see you there to hear more […]
Getting Started with the Confluent Terraform Provider
As part of our recent Q3 Launch for Confluent Cloud we announced the general availability of the Confluent Terraform Provider. HashiCorp Terraform is an Infrastructure as Code tool that lets […]
Event-Driven Microservices with Python and Apache Kafka
Our journey with microservices, so far… Back in the days before microservices, we used to build applications that were often hosted in application servers such as WebLogic or WebSphere (apologies […]
Keeping Multiple Databases in Sync Using Kafka Connect and CDC
Microservices architectures have now been widely adopted among developers, and with a great degree of success. However, drawbacks do exist. Data silos can arise where information processed by one microservice […]
Explore Real-Time Data Streaming Fundamentals and Use Cases at Current 2022
Today, 97% of organizations are using data streams to transform how their frontend applications and backend operations adapt to new information in real time. Companies are using data streams to […]
Real-Time Gaming Infrastructure for Millions of Users with Apache Kafka, ksqlDB, and WebSockets
The global video game market is bigger than the music and film industry combined. It includes Triple-A, casual/mid-core, mobile, and multiplayer online games. Various business models exist, such as hardware […]