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Introducing Confluent Private Cloud: Cloud-Level Agility for Your Private Infrastructure
Confluent Private Cloud (CPC) is a new software package that extends Confluent’s cloud-native innovations to your private infrastructure. CPC offers an enhanced broker with up to 10x higher throughput and a new Gateway that provides network isolation and central policy enforcement without client...
Queues for Apache Kafka® Is Here: Your Guide to Getting Started in Confluent
Confluent announces the General Availability of Queues for Kafka on Confluent Cloud and Confluent Platform with Apache Kafka 4.2. This production-ready feature brings native queue semantics to Kafka through KIP-932, enabling organizations to consolidate streaming and queuing infrastructure while...
New in Confluent Intelligence: A2A, Multivariate Anomaly Detection, Vector Search for Cosmos DB, Amazon S3 Vectors, and More
Explore new Confluent Intelligence features: A2A integration, multivariate anomaly detection, vector search for Cosmos DB and S3 Vectors, Private Link, and MCP support.
New Security Tools to Protect Your New Year’s Resolutions
Confluent's advanced security and connectivity features allow you to protect your data and innovate confidently. Features like Mutual TLS (mTLS), Private Link for Schema Registry, and Private Link for Flink, not only bolster security but also streamline network architecture and improve performance.
How Singapore Embraces Data Streaming Across Finance, Air Travel & More
Read this Data in Motion Tour recap to get highlights and key insights from Singaporean business leaders leveraging data streaming in their organizations.
Agentic AI: The Top 5 Challenges and How to Overcome Them
Before deploying agentic AI, enterprises should be prepared to address several issues that could impact the trustworthiness and security of the system.
Introducing Real-Time Embeddings: Any Model, Any Vector Database—No Code Needed
Confluent’s Create Embeddings Action for Flink helps you generate vector embeddings from real-time data to create a live semantic layer for your AI workflows.
Automating Podcast Promotion with AI and Event-Driven Design
We built an AI-powered tool to automate LinkedIn post creation for podcasts, using Kafka, Flink, and OpenAI models. With an event-driven design, it’s scalable, modular, and future-proof. Learn how this system works and explore the code on GitHub in our latest blog.
Revolutionizing Failure Management in Apache Flink: Meet FLIP-304's Pluggable Failure Enrichers
FLIP 304 lets you customize and enrich your Flink failure messaging: Assign types to failures, emit custom metrics per type, and expose your failure data to other tools.
Confluent Champion Maria on the Power of a Motivated Workplace
In our latest Confluent Champion, staff solutions engineer Maria Berinde-Tampanariu shares how Confluent fosters a culture of motivation and growth.
Using Apache Flink® for Model Inference: A Guide for Real-Time AI Applications
Learn how Flink enables developers to connect real-time data to external models through remote inference, enabling seamless coordination between data processing and AI/ML workflows.
Allium and Confluent: How to Build a Foundational Data Platform for Blockchain
Allium provides real-time, accessible blockchain data for analytics and business teams with the help of data streaming. Learn how here.
Optimizing Supply Chains with Data Streaming and Generative AI
Effective supply chain management relies on the ready availability of well-governed, real-time data. Learn how Confluent facilitates supply chain optimization.
Event-Driven AI: Building a Research Assistant with Kafka and Flink
The rise of agentic AI has fueled excitement around agents that autonomously perform tasks, make recommendations, and execute complex workflows. This blog post details the design and architecture of PodPrep AI, an AI-powered research assistant that helps the author prepare for podcast interviews.
New in Confluent Cloud: Extending Private Networking Across the Data Streaming Platform
Confluent Cloud 2024 Q4 adds private networking and mTLS authentication, follower fetching, Flink updates, WarpStream features to support migration and governance, and more!
IAG & Kmart: The Business Impact of Data Streaming in Australia & New Zealand
Discover how Confluent has transformed data management for Kmart and IAG in Australia and New Zealand with its real-time data streaming platform.
Stop Treating Your LLM Like a Database
GenAI thrives on real-time contextual data: In a modern system, LLMs should be designed to engage, synthesize, and contribute, rather than to simply serve as queryable data stores.