Explore Confluent Cloud’s Q2 2026 release, including dbt adapter, Materialized Tables for Flink, Confluent Intelligence releases, and more. This post first appeared on Read More
InfiniteWatch is building an AI-native customer interaction intelligence platform that unifies these streams into a continuous, real-time understanding of customer behavior and operational state. At…
Digital sovereignty in streaming demands architectural guarantees, not policy promises. How BYOC, schema controls, and open protocols satisfy global regulations. This post first appeared on…
This blog covers the latest updates to Kafka observability features in Confluent Cloud, including new metrics to understand consumer groups and elastic clusters This post…
Discover how Tableflow is helping you feed your data lake with real-time, analytics-ready tables for 30-50% lower cost This post first appeared on Read More
Confluent blog This post first appeared on Read More
Apache Kafka 4.0 has removed ZooKeeper entirely, and AWS MSK’s 3.9 release line is the last that supports both metadata modes. Every team running MSK…
Compare three AI inference patterns for Apache Kafka: external RPC, embedded, and sidecar. Avoid consumer rebalances, cut costs, and scale LLM pipelines safely. This post…
Real-time data for AI needs stream processing, not batch ETL. Learn how Kafka + Flink deliver fresh context, better features, and trust—read now. This post…
How To Process Unstructured Documents and Images in Real Time With Event-Driven Streaming Pipelines This post first appeared on Read More
Stream processing vs. real-time OLAP: learn key differences, when to pre-compute vs query-time, and build scalable real-time stacks with Kafka and Flink. Read now. This…
Use Confluent’s Kafka Copy Paste (KCP) integration with Gateway to simplify Kafka client migration and reduce your client migration time from weeks to hours. This…
Confluent Platform 8.2, built on Apache Kafka 4.2, delivers GA Queues for Kafka and Flink SQL, plus updates to Confluent Private Cloud Gateway, Unified Stream…
Discover how Agent Taskflow avoided self-managed Kafka and built a production-grade AI orchestration platform with Confluent and AWS This post first appeared on Read More
Most Kafka teams have something they call a Schema Registry backup — a curl script tucked into a cron job, a console consumer dump, an…