Confluent Blog

A common challenge organizations face is how to extract, transform, and load (ETL) Salesforce data into a data warehouse, so that the business can use the data. Salesforce (SFDC) is […]

In four years, Thierry Mbemba has gone from an entry-level sales rep at Confluent to one of the leading producers on the company’s worldwide sales team. A customer relationships driver […]

Today we’re announcing an exciting Strategic Collaboration Agreement (SCA) with Amazon Web Services (AWS). This new five-year agreement builds on our strong existing collaboration, with the goal of making it […]

The Internet of Things (IoT)—connecting physical objects to software components—has created several innovations and opportunities for enterprise companies, and continues to grow in top industries, including healthcare, smart factories, energy, […]

Enabling data in motion within an organization involves much more than simply setting up a Confluent cluster, piping in a few data sources, and writing a set of streaming applications. […]

On behalf of the Apache Kafka® community, it is my pleasure to announce the release of Apache Kafka 3.1.0. The 3.1.0 release contains many improvements and new features. We’ll highlight […]

What’s it really like to spend your days helping Confluent customers? Below, Alex Altman (Senior Director of Americas Support), Sam Hecht (VP, Global Support and Success Engineering), and Anna McDonald […]

A data pipeline is a method for getting data from one system to another, whether for analytics purposes or for storage. Learning the elements that make up this proven architecture […]

Instacart’s core mission—to create a world where everyone has access to the food they love and more time to enjoy it together—took on a new level of importance and urgency […]

The Confluent Q1 ‘22 Launch is live and packed full of new features that enable businesses to continue innovating quickly with real-time experiences fueled by data in motion. Our quarterly […]

We’re pleased to announce ksqlDB 0.23.1! This release allows you to now perform pull queries on streams, which makes it much easier to find a given record in a topic. […]

Whether you’re a seasoned Apache Kafka® developer or just getting started you’re likely to hit a snag at some point or another—either in configuring and understanding your clients or setting […]

While Self-Balancing Clusters (SBC) perform effectively in balancing Apache Kafka® clusters, one of the common themes we hear from our users is that they would love some visibility into the […]

Chances are your business is migrating to the cloud. But if you operate business applications in an on-premises datacenter, you know firsthand that the journey to the cloud is fraught […]