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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.
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.
Connecting the Dots: Simplifying Multi-API Data Flows into Apache Kafka®
This blog introduces the concept of API chaining — a method where data is collected by sequentially calling multiple related APIs. The response from one API is used to construct the request for the next, creating a chain that enables richer, more contextual data collection.
The Secret to Scaling Data Streaming at BMW Group
Scale data streaming within your organization by building an internal community. Align leaders, engage teams, and sustain adoption—featuring BMW Group’s blueprint and outcomes—to accelerate ROI and keep your platform relevant.
Confluent Recognized as a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Streaming Data Platforms, Q4 2025
This blog post highlights how Forrester Research has named Confluent a leader in The Forrester Wave™: Streaming Data Platforms, Q4 2025, and explains the value and benefits of the Confluent Data Streaming Platform.
Confluent Expands in Brazil to Help More Companies Harness Real-Time Data
Learn why Confluent is expanding its team in Brazil so customers like iFood & Stone Pagamentos can use real-time data to modernize and out-innovate the competition.
Detecting the Unexpected: Built-in Real-Time Anomaly Detection With Confluent Cloud for Apache Flink®
Learn how the built-in anomaly detection ML function in Confluent Cloud for Apache Flink® enables event-driven AI agents to detect and act on outlier system events faster.