Confluent Blog

Discover how Focal Systems uses computer vision, AI, and data streaming to improve retail store performance, shelf availability, and real-time inventory accuracy.

Streaming data integration supports enriched, reusable, canonical streams that can be transformed, shared ,or replicated to different destinations, not just one.

Learn the difference between cloud API keys and resource-specific API keys in Confluent Cloud, plus best practices for service accounts and production security.

Learn how the Confluent Trust Center helps security and compliance teams accelerate due diligence, simplify audits, and gain confidence through transparency.

Learn how Thunai uses real-time data streaming to power agentic AI, achieving 70–80% L1 support deflection and cutting resolution time from hours to minutes.

A global investment bank and Confluent used Apache Kafka to deliver sub-5ms p99 end-to-end latency with strict durability. Through disciplined architecture, monitoring, and tuning, they scaled from 100k to 1.6M msgs/s (<5KB), preserving order and transparent tail latency.

How Confluent blends remote-first flexibility with in-person onboarding to build connection, purpose, and long-term employee success from day one.

ZooKeeper is going away. Learn why hosted Kafka migrations are accelerating—and how Confluent Cloud simplifies your move with KRaft and KCP.

Find out what’s next for Current 2026—including the role of the event in the growing data streaming community and updates to plans for Asia-Pacific and United States events.

Confluent is recognized in the 2025 Gartner Data Integration Tools MQ. While valued for execution, we are running a different race. Learn how we are defining the data streaming platform category with our Apache Flink® service and Tableflow to power the modern real-time enterprise.

Audit logging in Confluent Cloud can seem boring—until you need precise insights in a crisis. Learn how to easily filter audit logs for your serverless Apache Kafka® environment and improve your data security.

Explore the latest Confluent client updates, featuring KIP-848 general availability for improved consumer stability and native Asyncio support for Python. We’ve also added simplified OAuth metadata authentication for cloud security and new observability metrics for Node.js consumers.

Discover how Confluent is improving Kafka Connect with better observability, security, migrations, and connector flexibility—making data integration easier to scale.

Apache Kafka® cluster rebalancing seems routine, but it drives hidden costs in time, resources, and cloud spend. Learn how Confluent helps reduce your Kafka total cost of ownership.