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
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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…
7 Must-Have CLI Tools Every Apache Kafka Engineer Should Know in 2025
The OSO engineers have worked with over 200 Kafka deployments, and there’s one pattern we see repeatedly – teams struggling with the basic kafka-console-consumer and…
From Oracle to MongoDB: How to Modernize Your Tech Stack for Real-Time AI Decisioning
Turn legacy Oracle data into real-time AI insights using Kafka, Flink, and MongoDB. Learn how to stream, enrich, and personalize faster than batch ever could.…
Introducing Private Network Interface: Secure Private Networking on AWS for 50% Less
Discover how Confluent’s new Private Network Interface (PNI) on AWS delivers secure, low-latency Kafka connectivity while cutting networking costs by up to 50%. This post…
Confluent Announces $200M Investment Across Global Partner Ecosystem
Learn how Confluent’s $200M investment in its global partner network will help CSPs, ISVs, and SIs accelerate growth and AI-driven innovation with data streaming. This…
Integrating Apache Kafka and Zero ETL via Confluent Tableflow
Confluent Tableflow unifies operational and analytical data by integrating Kafka with zero ETL, leveraging open table formats such as Iceberg and Delta Lake. This post…
Apache Kafka’s KRaft Protocol: How to Eliminate Zookeeper and Boost Performance by 8x
In the Apache Kafka ecosystem, metadata management has long been the Achilles’ heel of cluster operations. For years, we’ve wrestled with Zookeeper dependencies, watched clusters…
How to Build Truly Idempotent Kafka Consumers: A Mathematical Approach to Handling Duplicates
Every Kafka engineer has faced the dreaded duplicate message scenario. You’ve configured your producers for exactly-once semantics, implemented careful error handling, and yet somehow duplicate…
Confluent Enables Agility and Helps You Drives Savings as Markets Shift
Confluent helps businesses gain agility and drive savings amid market shifts. Unlock real-time insights, optimize operations, and respond faster to change. This post first appeared…
Where Curiosity Meets Collaboration: A Senior Engineer’s Perspective
Read this Confluent Champion post to learn how a senior software engineer grows through continuous learning, deep collaboration, and a culture that fuels innovation. This…