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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.
The Power of Predictive Analytics in Business: Using Generative AI and Confluent
Unlock the future of business decision-making with predictive analytics. From forecasting trends to optimizing operations, see how generative AI and Confluent's real-time data streaming empower organizations to transform raw data into actionable insights.
Generative AI Meets Data Streaming (Part I) – Data as the Engine: Building the AI Fundamentals
This blog series explores how technologies like generative AI, RAG, VectorDBs, and DSPs can work together to provide the freshest and most actionable data. Part 1 lays the foundation for understanding how data fuels AI, and why having the right data at the right time is essential for success.
Integrating OpenAI with BigQuery
Learn how integrating OpenAI with BigQuery enables AI-powered data analysis, real-time insights, and machine learning integration for transformative results.
Integrating Microservices with Confluent Cloud Using Micronaut® Framework
Continuing our discussion of JVM microservices frameworks used with Apache Kafka, we introduce Micronaut. Let’s integrate a Micronaut microservice with Confluent Cloud—using Stream Governance—and test the Kafka integration with TestContainers.
Queues in Apache Kafka®: Enhancing Message Processing and Scalability
Adding queue support to Kafka opens up a world of new possibilities for users, making Kafka even more versatile. By combining the strengths of traditional queue systems with Kafka’s robust log-based architecture, customers now have a solution that can handle both streaming and queue processing.
Introducing Confluent’s JavaScript Client for Apache Kafka®
Confluent launches the general availability of a new JavaScript client for Apache Kafka®, a fully supported Kafka client for JavaScript and TypeScript programmers in Node.js environments.
Confluent Challenges Data Integration Dogma
Gartner® published the 2024 Magic Quadrant for Data Integration Tools, which recognized Confluent as a Challenger. Confluent is pushing the industry beyond the outdated dogma of batch processing and improving the way you implement data integration at scale.
Highlights from Confluent AI Day 2024
Catch up on AI Day’s Keynote; AI Accelerator launch; panel discussion with Anthropic, AWS, MongoDB, Reworkd, and Confluent; GenAI RAG workshops; and a hackathon with a GenAI app showcase. Watch the full livestream on demand.
The Power of Data Streaming in Digital-Native Organizations: A Look Inside AppDirect
Learn how AppDirect, a digital-native leader, uses Confluent's data streaming platform to drive real-time analytics, streamline operations, and enable scalability. With Confluent, AppDirect transforms customer experiences while unlocking new use cases like real-time billing and ML-driven insights.
Confluent’s Customer Zero: Supercharge Lead Scoring with Apache Flink® and Google Cloud Vertex AI, Part 1
This blog details an end-to-end real-time prediction project leveraging the combined capabilities of Confluent Cloud stacks and Google Cloud Vertex AI. This project aims to deliver a streamlined solution for real-time prediction applications, catering to the evolving needs and challenges of moder...
Unify Streaming and Analytical Data with Apache Iceberg®, Confluent Tableflow, and Amazon SageMaker® Lakehouse
Tableflow can seamlessly make your Kafka operational data available to your AWS analytics ecosystem with minimal effort, leveraging the capabilities of Confluent Tableflow and Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse.
New with Confluent Platform 7.8: Confluent Platform for Apache Flink® (GA), mTLS Identity for RBAC Authorization, and More
This blog announces the general availability of Confluent Platform 7.8 and its latest key features: Confluent Platform for Apache Flink® (GA), mTLS Identity for RBAC Authorization, and more.
Securely Query Confluent Cloud from Amazon Redshift with mTLS
With both Confluent and Amazon Redshift supporting mTLS, streaming developers and architects are able to take advantage of a native integration that allows Amazon Redshift to query Confluent Cloud topics.
Confluent Introduces Enterprise Data Streaming to MongoDB’s AI Applications Program (MAAP)
This blog post announces Confluent’s entrance into MongoDB’s AI partner program (MAAP) and introduces a technical quickstart for development of a finserv GenAI chat bot use case with Confluent, MongoDB, and Anthropic on AWS.