Big Ideas

The rise of agentic AI has fueled excitement around agents that autonomously perform tasks, make recommendations, and execute complex workflows. This blog post details the design and architecture of PodPrep AI, an AI-powered research assistant that helps the author prepare for podcast interviews.

Continuing issues with hallucinations, the increasing independence of agentic AI systems, and the greater usage of dynamic data sources, are three AI trends you may want to monitor in 2025.

The Confluent for Startups AI Accelerator Program is a 10-week virtual initiative designed to support early-stage AI startups building real-time, data-driven applications. Participants will gain early access to Confluent’s cutting-edge technology, one-on-one mentorship, marketing exposure, and...

This series of blog posts will take you on a journey from absolute beginner (where I was a few months ago) to building a fully functioning, scalable application. Our example Gen AI application will use the Kappa Architecture as the architectural foundation.

ChatGPT and data streaming can work together for any company. Learn a basic framework for using GPT-4 and streaming to build a real-world production application.

The ML and data streaming markets have socio-technical blockers between them, but they are finally coming together. Apache Kafka and stream processing solutions are a perfect match for data-hungry models.

Breaking encapsulation has led to a decade of problems for data teams. But is the solution just to tell data teams to use APIs instead of extracting data from databases? The answer is no. Breaking encapsulation was never the goal, only a symptom of data and software teams not working together.

Apache Kafka and stream processing solutions are a perfect match for data-hungry models. Our community’s solutions can form a critical part of a machine learning platform, enabling machine learning engineers to deliver real-time MLOps strategies.

The big data revolution of the early 2000s saw rapid growth in data creation, storage, and processing. A new set of architectures, tools, and technologies emerged to meet the demand. But what of big data today? You seldom hear of it anymore. Where has it gone?

Experienced technology leaders know that adopting a new technology can be risky. Often, we are unable to distinguish between those investments that will be transformational and those that won’t be worthwhile. This post examines how one can decide if event streaming makes sense for them.

Learn how modern data management approaches like data mesh and event-driven architecture (EDA) can be used to manage data platforms and how to take advantage of them.

Perhaps the largest challenge for modern data teams is gaining and retaining trust. The challenge of Big Data has come and gone, now we face the challenge of Untrustworthy Data, which will be one of the core focal points of the data space in 2023 and beyond.

The worlds of data integration and data pipelines are changing in ways that are highly reminiscent of the profound changes I witnessed in application and service development over the last twenty years.

Decentralized architectures continue to flourish as engineering teams look to unlock the potential of their people and systems. From Git, to microservices, to cryptocurrencies, these designs look to decentralization as […]