Confluent Blog

This blog post discusses the two generals problems, how it impacts message delivery guarantees, and how those guarantees would affect a futuristic technology such as teleportation.

Our new PII Detection solution enables you to securely utilize your unstructured text by enabling entity-level control. Combined with our suite of data governance tools, you can execute a powerful real-time cyber defense strategy.

When Steven Zhang graduated from college in 2019, he, was searching for intellectually-stimulating work. That search led him to Confluent. Four years in, Steven currently works as a senior software engineer in the Stream Processing and Analytics organization

It's hard to properly calculate the cost of running Kafka. In part 1 of 4, learn to calculate your Kafka costs based on your infrastructure, networking, and cloud usage.

Shaun Clowes, Confluent’s Chief Product Officer since December of last year, will tell you data is the lifeblood of modern organizations. But he will also tell you he isn’t a big fan of the word “data.”

Capturing tech trends has become a bit tricky these days: whatever industry you’re in, uncertainty abounds. Planning has become harder, but businesses are finding new ways to innovate and respond quickly to fast-changing market conditions.

The blog introduces Confluent Platform 7.4 and its key features, including enhancing scalability, increasing architectural simplicity, accelerating time to market, reducing ops burden, and ensuring high-quality data streams. It also covers what's new in Apache Kafka 3.4.

The National Cybersecurity Strategy released by the Biden-Harris administration in March 2023 was designed to provide direction for developing and evolving the digital ecosystem that will become a key line of defense for the security of our nation

If you’ve been working with Kafka Streams and have seen an “unknown magic byte” error, you might be wondering what a magic byte is in the first place, and also, how to resolve the error. This post explains the answers to both questions.

Spring has arrived in the northern hemisphere, and as we delight in the sight of flowers blossoming, trees budding, and greenery sprouting, we're reminded of the promise of brighter and warmer days ahead.

Why do our customers choose Confluent as their trusted data streaming platform? In this blog, we will explore our platform’s reliability, durability, scalability, and security by presenting some remarkable statistics and providing insights into our engineering capabilities.

Over the last decade, financial services companies have doubled down on using real-time capabilities to differentiate themselves from the competition and become more efficient. This trend has had a huge impact on customer experience in banking especially, and home mortgage company Mr. Cooper

Confluent has successfully achieved Google Cloud Ready - AlloyDB designation for AlloyDB for PostgreSQL, Google Cloud’s newest fully managed PostgreSQL-compatible database service for the most demanding enterprise database workloads.