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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.
Introducing Apache Kafka® 4.1.0: What’s New and How to Upgrade
Announcing the release of Apache Kafka 4.1
Cut the Costs of Hosted Apache Kafka® With Confluent Cloud’s Price Guarantee
This blog post outlines the top four challenges of using hyperscaler-hosted Kafka, focusing on high costs, manual maintenance, reliability gaps, and vendor lock-in. It then explains how Confluent Cloud is architected to solve each of these specific problems for customers.
Using Webhooks to Integrate Confluent Cloud and Microsoft Teams
Learn how to use webhooks to integrate your Microsoft Teams tenant with Confluent Cloud and receive service event notifications directly in your inbox or team channels.
How to Protect PII in Apache Kafka® With Schema Registry and Data Contracts
Protect sensitive data with Data Contracts using Confluent Schema Registry.
Unleash Real-Time Agentic AI: Introducing Streaming Agents on Confluent Cloud
Build event-driven agents on Apache Flink® with Streaming Agents on Confluent Cloud—fresh context, MCP tool calling, real-time embeddings, and enterprise governance.
How Confluent Is Enhancing and Easing Migration to Fully Managed Connectors
Confluent has enhanced its fully managed connectors with new features like exposed connector logs for non-admins, plugin versioning, expanded SMT support, custom topic naming for DLQ and error topics, and specific connector updates. These improvements offer better control, data guarantees, user...
New in Confluent Cloud: Unleashing Cost-Effective Streaming for Any Workload
Confluent Cloud’s Q3 launch delivers cost-effective streaming with new features like Private Network Interface (PNI) for lower networking costs, boosted client connection limits, Streaming Agents for real-time agentic AI, expanded Tableflow functionality with upserts, Cluster Linking on Google Cl...
From Oracle to MongoDB: How to Modernize Your Tech Stack for Real-Time AI Decisioning
Turn legacy Oracle data into real-time AI insights using Kafka, Flink, and MongoDB. Learn how to stream, enrich, and personalize faster than batch ever could.
Introducing Private Network Interface: Secure Private Networking on AWS for 50% Less
Confluent has introduced Private Network Interface (PNI) for AWS, a new secure networking option that helps save 50% on networking costs and has been successfully adopted by customers like Indeed. PNI is now available for Enterprise and Freight clusters.
Solving ETL Challenges with Apache Kafka®, Confluent Tableflow, and Zero ETL
Confluent Tableflow unifies operational and analytical data by integrating Kafka with zero ETL, leveraging open table formats such as Iceberg and Delta Lake. It offers advantages over traditional zero ETL by enabling data reuse, schema decoupling, and better scalability, streamlining data sharing.
How to Build a Custom Kafka Connector – A Comprehensive Guide
Learn how to build a custom Kafka connector, which is an essential skill for anyone working with Apache Kafka® in real-time data streaming environments with a wide variety of data sources and sinks.
How NeuBird's Hawkeye Automates Incident Resolution in Confluent Cloud
Introducing NeuBird’s Hawkeye—a GenAI-powered SRE assistant purpose-built to streamline these operational demands. By intelligently ingesting telemetry, alert, and audit data from Confluent Cloud and automating diagnostic workflows, Hawkeye helps teams reduce MTTR and accelerate root cause analysis.
Why Hosted Apache Kafka® Leaves You Holding the Bag
A behind-the-scenes look at why hosted Kafka falls short—and how Confluent Cloud’s architecture solves for cost, resilience, and operational simplicity at scale.
Unlocking Real-Time Analytics on AWS With Tableflow, Apache Iceberg™, and the AWS Glue Data Catalog
Existing Confluent Cloud (CC) AWS users can now use Tableflow to easily represent Kafka topics as Iceberg tables and then leverage AWS Glue Data catalog to power real-time AI and analytics workloads.