Confluent Blog

Learn best practices for using Confluent Schema Registry, including understanding subjects and versions, pre-registering schemas, using data contracts, and more.

In a world increasingly driven by data, the revolutionary power of real-time data streaming applications cannot be denied. Five months ago, Confluent announced the Data Streaming Startup Challenge

As presenters took the keynote stage at this year’s Kafka Summit in London, an undercurrent of excitement was “streaming” through the room. With over 3,500 people in attendance, both in person and online, the Apache Kafka® community came out...

Learn about our vision for Tableflow, a new feature in private early access that makes it push-button simple to take Apache Kafka® data and feed it directly into your data lake, warehouse, or analytics engine as Apache Iceberg® tables.

We're thrilled to announce the general availability of Confluent Cloud for Apache Flink across all three major clouds. This means that you can now experience Kafka and Flink as a unified, enterprise-grade platform to connect and process your data in real time.

We’re excited to share the latest and greatest features on Confluent Cloud, in our first launch of 2024. Learn more about our latest updates including serverless Apache Flink, exciting pricing changes, updates to connectors, and more!

Check out all the highlights from the Apache Flink® 1.19 release!

Let’s learn more about what drives Bahar, how Confluent helps advance her goals, and the interesting Women in Tech initiatives she is helping drive.

In the bustling world of retail, the concept of a smart warehouse is a game-changer. Picture this: automated systems seamlessly managing inventory counts and fulfillment orders, monitoring shelf weights, and orchestrating robot fleets for lightning-fast retrievals. Welcome to smart warehousing...

To mark International Women’s Day, we opened up the floor to two of our senior leaders to share their experiences as women in tech. Here, Victoria Mileham, Head of Global Recruiting, and Murielle de Gruchy, People Business Partner, Global Finance and Ops and EMEA Region, discuss women’s superpower

The Data in Motion Tour brings Confluent experts together with partners and customers for an interactive day of discussions and demos of data streaming. The Washington, D.C. stop of the tour...

In just a few months since it became widely available, generative AI has swiftly captivated the attention of organizations across industries. In March 2023, IDC polled organizations and found that 61% were already doing something with generative AI (GenAI).

Let’s delve into Leandro’s career so far and what he’s learnt in his 4 years at Confluent, helping to scale the EMEA region.

It’s that time of year again––Kafka Summit London is right around the corner. On March 19 and 20, the Kafka community will gather at ExCeL London to talk about all things new and exciting in the world of Apache Kafka®.