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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...
AI Tools for Builders — Confluent's MCP Server & Agent Skills
Confluent's AI developer tools are now GA: an open-source local MCP server, a managed MCP server, and Agent Skills. Together they give AI coding assistants direct access to your streaming platform — the tools to act on it and the domain knowledge to build correctly.
New in Confluent Intelligence: Real-Time Context Engine Upgrade, New Model Support, ML Functions, and More
Explore new Confluent Intelligence features: enhanced querying with Real-Time Context Engine, PII detection, sentiment analysis, and support for TimesFM, Anthropic, and Fireworks AI models.
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.
Context-Driven AI Reigned Supreme at Current New Orleans
Catch up on Current New Orleans—and how executives, architects, developers, and data engineers alike learned about why AI should be powered by event-driven, context-rich data streams.
How Superwall Uses WarpStream and ClickHouse Cloud to Scale Subscription Monetization
Learn why Superwall chose to scale its subscription monetization business model with Warpstream and Clickhouse Cloud.
Introducing Real-Time Context Engine: Simplified Context Engineering With Real-Time, Processed Data for AI
Unlock real-time context for AI with Confluent’s Real-Time Context Engine. Evaluate, process, and serve trustworthy context continuously in Confluent Cloud.
Faster, Smarter, More Context-Aware: What’s New in Streaming Agents
Explore new Streaming Agents features — Agent Definition, Observability & Debugging, and access to Real-Time Context Engine — to build intelligent, context-aware AI on Confluent.
Streaming Data to AI-Ready Tables: Tableflow for Delta Lake and Databricks Unity Catalog Is Now Generally Available
Transform real-time Kafka data into governed, AI-ready Delta Lake tables with Confluent Tableflow and Databricks Unity Catalog. Simplify pipelines, ensure governance, and unlock real-time analytics and AI.
New in Confluent Cloud: Data in Motion for AI in Action
Explore updates from Confluent Cloud’s Q4 2025 release, including new capabilities and availability for Streaming Agents, new Real-Time Context Engine, and more.
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...
Unified Stream Manager: Manage and Monitor Apache Kafka® Across Environments
Unified Stream Manager is now GA! Bridge the gap between Confluent Platform and Confluent Cloud with a single pane of glass for hybrid data governance, end-to-end lineage, and observability.
Confluent and Your Data: A Partnership You Can Trust
Confluent prioritizes resilience for mission-critical apps, ensuring high availability with 99.99% uptime SLA. We also provide a number of capabilities for monitoring and observability within your own systems.
Why Apache Kafka® Migration Costs Are Often Underestimated
Planning an Apache Kafka® migration? Learn how to estimate migration expenses, reduce costs, and compare self-managed vs managed real-time data platforms with expert insight.