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At Current 2023, we announced that Confluent Cloud is now up to 10x faster than Apache Kafka®, thanks to Kora, The Cloud-Native Kafka engine that powers Confluent Cloud. In this blog post, we will cover what that means in more depth.

Our latest updates to Confluent Cloud focus on enabling customers to realize a seamless experience using our data streaming platform. With these improvements, we aim to provide a more streamlined and secure experience, allowing users to focus on leveraging real-time data to drive business outcomes.

Imagine easily enriching data streams and building stream processing applications in the cloud, without worrying about capacity planning, infrastructure and runtime upgrades, or performance monitoring. That's where our serverless Apache Flink® service comes in.

Learn how to configure Azure Active Directory DS (Azure AD DS) and Confluent Cloud so that the Azure Directory can be used to authenticate and authorize applications to use Confluent Cloud clusters.

Today, we’re excited to announce the general availability of Data Portal on Confluent Cloud. Data Portal is built on top of Stream Governance, the industry’s only fully managed data governance suite for Apache Kafka® and data streaming.

Confluent Schema Registry, both in Confluent Platform Enterprise and Confluent Cloud, now supports the use of data contracts. In this article, we'll walk through an example of enhancing a schema to be a full-fledged data contract.

Today, we’re introducing Confluent Cloud’s fully managed service for Apache Flink®, improvements to Kora Engine, how AI and streaming work together, and much more.

Learn the best practices for integrating Confluent with AWS Lambda to build event-driven architectures.

Learn about Confluent Platform 7.5 and its latest key features: enhancing security with SSO for Control Center, improving developer efficacy with Confluent REST Proxy API v3, and improving disaster recovery capabilities with bidirectional Cluster Linking.

Confluent Cloud has chosen Let’s Encrypt as its Certificate Authority and leverages its automation features to spend less time managing certificates and more time building private networking features.

Confluent Platform 7.4 now includes SBOMs, which gives customers more transparency and control over their software deployments.

GitOps can work with policy-as-code systems to provide a true self-service model for managing Confluent resources. Policy-as-code is the practice of permitting or preventing actions based on rules and conditions defined in code. In the context of GitOps for Confluent, suitable policies...

Amazon DynamoDB is a fully managed, serverless, key-value NoSQL database service that is highly available and scalable. It is designed to deliver single-digit millisecond query performance at any scale. It offers a fast and flexible way to store...

Take a tour of the internals of Confluent’s Apache Kafka® service, powered by Kora: the next-generation, cloud-native streaming engine.