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Kafka is your event backbone, not your inference runtime. This guide breaks down three patterns for running AI alongside Kafka (external API, embedded, sidecar), when to use each, and how to handle topic design, dead-letter queues, idempotency, and LLM cost control.

Unstructured data (PDFs, scans, images) breaks every assumption built for structured pipelines. This guide walks through a four-stage streaming architecture for turning messy binary blobs into RAG-ready chunks and embeddings, with patterns for rate limits, cost control, and fault tolerance.

Stream processing and real-time OLAP solve different problems, but vendor marketing makes them sound the same. This guide breaks down when to use Flink vs ClickHouse/Pinot, what to precompute vs query on the fly, and how Kafka connects both layers into one architecture.

Batch ETL feeds AI models data that's hours old. That causes context drift in RAG, training-serving skew in fraud detection, and broken operational AI. This guide covers the Ingest, Process, Serve architecture using Kafka and Flink to keep embeddings, features, and context fresh in milliseconds.

We’re excited to announce Confluent Platform 8.2! Built on Apache Kafka 4.2, it introduces Queues for Kafka (GA) for native task-queue workloads, Flink SQL (GA) to simplify stream processing, and CPC Gateway 1.2 for seamless client switchover to make managing migrations easier than ever.

Learn how the Confluent Trust Center helps security and compliance teams accelerate due diligence, simplify audits, and gain confidence through transparency.

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 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 is providing our customers and prospects with a full package to build trust and innovate securely with Confluent. With our technical documentation, foundational principles and a new level of transparency.

Learn how to stream real-time data from Confluent to AWS EventBridge. Set up the connector, explore use cases, and build scalable event-driven apps.

This blog announces the general availability (GA) of Confluent Platform 8.0 and its latest key features: Client-side field level encryption (GA), ZooKeeper-free Kafka, management for Flink with Control Center, and more.

This blog announces the general availability of the next generation of Control Center for Confluent Platform

Confluent's new Oracle XStream CDC Premium Connector delivers enterprise-grade performance with 2-3x throughput improvement over traditional approaches, eliminates costly Oracle GoldenGate licensing requirements, and seamlessly integrates with 120+ connectors...

This blog announces the general availability of Confluent Platform 7.9 and its latest key features: Oracle XStream CDC Connector, Client-Side Field Level Encryption (EA), Confluent for VS Code, and more.