Five years ago, every enterprise technology leader had the same strategy: migrate everything to the cloud. The plan was simple—treat on-premises infrastructure as a temporary…
Apache Kafka 4.1 introduces Queues preview, new Streams Rebalance Protocol, OAuth support, and key client, Streams, and Connect enhancements. This post first appeared on Read…
Discover why hyperscaler-hosted Apache Kafka® services drive up costs with hidden expenses and ops overhead—and how Confluent Cloud cuts infra costs by 60% or more.…
When building mission-critical streaming applications for supply chain management, financial services, or real-time business intelligence, developers often discover that Kafka Streams’ Domain Specific Language (DSL)…
Enterprise data ecosystems are increasingly complex, with schemas flowing through multiple data infrastructure systems—from Kafka to data lakes to analytical databases. A single schema change…
Bottom Line Up Front: KIP-714 client metrics transforms Kafka monitoring from a fragmented, team-by-team challenge into a centralised, governance-driven solution that automatically captures telemetry from…
Read this blog to learn more about Vineet’s experience and growth at Confluent and how his team and environment have set him up for success.…
Set up webhooks to connect Confluent Cloud with Microsoft Teams and get real-time service notifications in your inbox or team channels. This post first appeared…
Picture this: your team has built a brilliant Kafka platform that’s become the backbone of your organisation’s data infrastructure. Teams across the company are clamouring…
Learn how to use Confluent Schema Registry and data contracts to validate, mask, and encrypt sensitive data like PII in Kafka workloads using CEL and…
Learn how to use Confluent Schema Registry and data contracts to validate, mask, and encrypt sensitive data like PII in Kafka workloads using CEL and…
Explore Confluent Cloud’s Q3 2025 release—new cost-saving networking, higher connection limits, AI-ready streaming agents, and more. This post first appeared on Read More
Build event-driven agents on Apache Flink® with Streaming Agents on Confluent Cloud—fresh context, MCP tool calling, real-time embeddings, and enterprise governance. This post first appeared…
Discover the latest Confluent Cloud updates for fully managed connectors—new RBAC log access, plugin versioning, expanded SMTs, and custom topic naming—designed to ease migrations from…
Stream to ClickHouse with ease. Our new fully managed sink connector on Confluent Cloud is now GA—zero ops, auto scaling, and built-in security. This post…