Cut the Costs of Hosted Apache Kafka® With Confluent Cloud’s Price Guarantee
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.…
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How to Use Kafka Streams Processor API for Complex Enterprise Applications
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)…
Building a Unified Schema Registry: How to Eliminate Cross-System Compatibility Failures in Enterprise Data Architectures
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…
KIP-714 Client Metrics: How Apache Kafka Finally Solved Its Biggest Monitoring Challenge
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…
Confluent Champion: How Vineet Pursues Engineering Excellence in an Innovation Culture
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.…
Using Webhooks to Integrate Confluent Cloud and Microsoft Teams
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…
Complete Guide to Building Self-Service Kafka Operations: Eliminating Manual Bottlenecks at Enterprise Scale
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…
How to Protect PII in Apache Kafka® With Schema Registry and Data Contracts
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…
How to Protect PII in Apache Kafka® With Schema Registry and Data Contracts
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…
New in Confluent Cloud: Unleashing Cost-Effective Streaming for Any Workload
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
Unleash Real-Time Agentic AI: Introducing Streaming Agents on Confluent Cloud
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…
How Confluent Is Enhancing and Easing Migration to Fully Managed Connectors
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…
Announcing the Confluent Cloud Fully Managed Sink Connector for ClickHouse
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…
How Confluent Helps Software Providers Build Real-Time Products and SaaS Faster
Embed Confluent’s enterprise-grade Kafka into your product to speed delivery, cut costs, and scale real-time capabilities with less risk. This post first appeared on Read…
How Confluent Helps Software Providers Build Real-Time Products and SaaS Faster
Discover how forward-looking execs use real-time data to power AI, accelerate strategy, and win market share—plus an invite to our 5-day virtual summit. This post…