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Aiven, Confluent, Redpanda, StreamNative and Ververica Form Streamhouse Working Group
New industry initiative establishes an open category for data architectures that power real-time applications and AI agents
KCP: How to Migrate to Confluent Cloud in Days, Not Weeks
Learn how to migrate to Confluent Cloud in hours using Confluent’s open source Kafka Copy Paste tool. Get an in-depth introduction to the KCP tool and a walk-through of the four steps of migrating from MSK to Confluent Cloud using the tool.
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.
Customer Intelligence Hub: A Single Pane of Glass for Customer Insight and Action
Customer Intelligence Hub unifies customer signals into a real-time, AI-powered view that helps GTM teams prioritize risk, identify opportunity, and act faster with contextual insights.
Proven: Up to 73% Fewer Brokers With Confluent Private Cloud – and More
Confluent Private Cloud matches Kafka performance with up to 73% fewer brokers. Benchmarks prove massive TCO savings, while Centralized Policy Enforcement streamlines data governance and broker-native multi-tenancy provides the isolation needed to end "noisy neighbor" issues for good.
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 Cloud: Making Data, Pipelines, and Ops Accessible for AI-Ready Streaming
Confluent Cloud’s Q2 ‘26 launch makes AI-ready streaming accessible by delivering SQL-based workflows via the dbt adapter for Flink, enhanced developer tooling with managed MCP server and Agent Skills, production-grade AI solutions through Streaming Agents and Real-Time Context Engine, and more.
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.
Designing Sovereignty in Real-Time Data Streaming
Confluent's architectural approach to digital sovereignty for real-time streaming, showcasing our deployment spectrum, zero-access guarantees, and open-source foundation
Feed Your Data Lake With Real-Time, Analytics-Ready Tables for 30-50% Lower Cost Using Tableflow
Confluent Tableflow simplifies the process of feeding data lakes and lakehouses by turning Kafka topics directly into analytics-ready Iceberg or Delta Lake tables, eliminating complex traditional ETL stacks leading to 30%–50% lower total ingestion costs.
The Last (and Longest) Mile of Apache Kafka® Migrations: Client Migrations With KCP and Confluent Cloud Gateway
This blog post introduces KCP integration with Gateway, which automates Kafka client cutover by routing traffic through an auth-translating proxy and orchestrating group-based, offset-safe migrations to Confluent Cloud with just a few CLI commands.
Introducing Confluent Platform 8.2: Queues for Apache Kafka®, Flink SQL, and More
We’re excited to announce Confluent Platform 8.2! Built on Apache Kafka 4.2, it introduces Queues for Kafka (GA) for native task-queue workloads, Flink SQL (GA) to simplify stream processing, and CPC Gateway 1.2 for seamless client switchover to make managing migrations easier than ever.
Why ELT Can't Keep Up in the Era of High-Scale Data Engineering
Batch ELT pipelines create duplication, cost spikes, and governance gaps as data scales. Here’s why enterprises are rethinking legacy integration models.