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Discover how Confluent’s BYOK for Enterprise Clusters and support for EKMs enhance security, and efficient data streaming in our latest blog.

This is the Q1 2025 Connect with Confluent announcement blog—a quarterly installment introducing new entrants into the Connect with Confluent technology partner program. Every blog has a new theme, and this quarter’s focus is on powering real-time AI and analytics with streaming data.

Introduction to Flink SQL VECTOR_SEARCH() on Confluent cloud. VECTOR_SEARCH() along with ML_PREDICT() enables developers to execute GenAI use cases with data streaming technologies.

Confluent Cloud now supports Cluster Linking for Azure Private Link, enabling secure data replication between Kafka clusters in private Azure environments. With Cluster Linking, organizations can achieve real-time data movement, disaster recovery, migrations, and secure data sharing

Most AI projects fail not because of bad models, but because of bad data. Siloed, stale, and locked in batch pipelines, enterprise data isn’t AI-ready. This post breaks down the data liberation problem and how streaming solves it—freeing real-time data so AI can actually deliver value.

The concept of “shift left” in building data pipelines involves applying stream governance close to the source of events. Let’s discuss some tools (like Terraform and Gradle) and practices used by data streaming engineers to build and maintain those data contracts.

This article explores how event-driven design—a proven approach in microservices—can address the chaos, creating scalable, efficient multi-agent systems. If you’re leading teams toward the future of AI, understanding these patterns is critical. We’ll demonstrate how they can be implemented.

Real-time data streaming and GenAI are advancing Singapore's Smart Nation vision. As AI adoption grows, challenges from data silos to legacy infrastructure can slow progress - but Confluent, through IMDA's Tech Acceleration Lab, is helping orgs overcome hurdles and develop smarter citizen services.

An expanded partnership between Confluent and Databricks will dramatically simplify the integration between analytical and operational systems, so enterprises spend less time fussing over siloed data and governance and more time creating value for their customers.

Learn how Confluent Champion Suguna motivates her team of engineers to solve complex problems for customers—while challenging herself to keep growing as a manager.

Learn how to use the recently launched Provisioned Mode for Lambda’s Kafka ESM to build high throughput Kafka applications with Confluent Cloud’s Kafka platform. This blog also exhibits a sample scenario to activate and test the Provisioned Mode for ESM, and outline best practices.

Airy helps developers build copilots as a new interface to explore and work with streaming data – turning natural language into Flink jobs that act as agents.

Confluent is thrilled to announce the newest cohort of early-stage startups joining the Confluent for Startups AI Accelerator program. This 10-week virtual program is designed to support the next generation of AI innovators that are developing real-time generative AI (GenAI) applications.

Jump-start a new use case with our new Build with Confluent partners and solutions.