Confluent Blog

As the world’s population continues to increase, so does the need for new infrastructure, buildings and housing, automatically increasing the demand for tradespeople. Whether it's an electrician, a plumber, or an HVAC technician...

Just under a year ago, Confluent announced the Confluent for Startups program, which provides Confluent Cloud credits to early stage startups trying to get their streaming initiatives off the ground. Since then, we’ve worked with over 150 startups...

Dive into Flink SQL, a powerful data processing engine that allows you to process and analyze large volumes of data in real time. We’ll cover how Flink SQL relates to the other Flink APIs and showcase some of its built-in functions and operations with syntax examples.

In today's rapidly evolving digital age, organizations across various sectors are leveraging technology to provide great customer experiences. One of the most important touchpoints in this journey is the 'Customer Onboarding' process...

Consumers have become increasingly adept at navigating omnichannel brand presence. One minute they’re in the store purchasing a product, and the next they’re online submitting a review. Or they’re buying something via an app while driving to the store to pick it up curbside.

Looking to install Kafka on Windows? This step-by-step guide will show you how to set it up and run it thanks to the Windows Subsystem for Linux 2.

When Bans Sagoo was looking to transition into a role in the data streaming space, he accepted a “great career opportunity” at Confluent. Two years in, Bans currently dons the role of a manager in the Commercial Solutions Engineering Management team.

At the Singapore Data in Motion Tour stop, keynote speaker and Confluent cofounder Jun Rao helped break down the history of Kafka and explain how Confluent got started on its mission to modernize data flows...

Apache Kafka (the basis for the Confluent Platform) delivers an advanced stream processing platform for streaming data across AWS, GCP, and Azure at scale, used by thousands of companies. Amazon...

The insurance industry, like other traditional sectors, is no stranger to the rapid technology-driven change in consumer expectations. If these companies don’t keep pace, they risk an eroding customer base and lost revenue to more nimble and innovative competitors.

Learn about the role of batch.size and linger.ms in Kafka message compression.

The Very Large Data Bases (VLDB) conference is a premier conference for data management systems and is renowned for showcasing cutting-edge research and industry systems. We are delighted to share that our paper, titled "Kora: A Cloud-Native Event Streaming Platform For Kafka"

In today’s hyper-connected era, customers demand nothing less than instant access to tailor-made, meaningful content that resonates with their individual needs and preferences. This post details how organizations can leverage the power of cloud-native data streaming in Confluent Cloud...

Today, use of data streaming technologies has become table stakes for businesses. But with data streaming technologies, patterns, and best practices continuing to mature, it’s imperative for businesses to stay on top of what’s new and next in the world of data streaming.