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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.
Starting With Purpose: In-Person Onboarding in a Remote-First World
How Confluent blends remote-first flexibility with in-person onboarding to build connection, purpose, and long-term employee success from day one.
Confluent Cloud Is Your Life (K)Raft Away From Hosted Apache Kafka®
ZooKeeper is going away. Learn why hosted Kafka migrations are accelerating—and how Confluent Cloud simplifies your move with KRaft and KCP.
The Current Status of Current
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 Recognized in 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Data Integration Tools
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 Logs in Confluent Cloud – Digital Dust Collectors or a DevOps Lifeline?
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.
Apache Kafka® Client Updates: KIP-848 (GA), asyncio, OAuth, and More
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.
How We’re Making Connect Integration More Flexible, Efficient, and Secure
Discover how Confluent is improving Kafka Connect with better observability, security, migrations, and connector flexibility—making data integration easier to scale.
Why Cluster Rebalancing Counts More Than You Think in Your Apache Kafka® Costs
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.
Why Managing Your Apache Kafka® Schemas Is Costing You More Than You Think
Manual schema management in Apache Kafka® leads to rising costs, compatibility risks, and engineering overhead. See how Confluent lowers your total cost of ownership for Kafka with Schema Registry and more.
Apache Kafka® Monitoring Is Costing You More Than You Think
Manual Apache Kafka® monitoring and tool sprawl drive hidden costs in time, complexity, and cloud spend. Learn how Confluent lowers total cost of ownership for Kafka with integrated monitoring.
Cost to Build a Data Streaming Platform: TCO, Risks, and Alternatives
Discover the real cost of building a data streaming platform in-house. Learn what drives expenses, compare to managed solutions, and see how to optimize total cost of ownership for platforms powered by Apache Kafka®.
Simplify Real-Time Context Engineering for Snowflake Intelligence With Confluent
Power Snowflake Cortex agents with real-time, trustworthy context using Confluent Intelligence, Streaming Agents, and the Real-Time Context Engine.
IBM to Acquire Confluent
We are excited to announce that Confluent has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by IBM.
Empowering the Data Streaming Ecosystem: Evolving Confluent Hub to Confluent Marketplace
Confluent Hub has evolved into the new Confluent Marketplace—a curated catalog when you can discover, purchase, and deploy community and partner-built integrations and streaming solutions.