Confluent

We’re excited to share the latest and greatest features on Confluent Cloud, in our first launch of 2024. Learn more about our latest updates including serverless Apache Flink, exciting pricing changes, updates to connectors, and more!

Change data capture is a popular method to connect database tables to data streams, but it comes with drawbacks. The next evolution of the CDC pattern, first-class data products, provide resilient pipelines that support both real-time and batch processing while isolating upstream systems...

Over the last two years, we have periodically announced Confluent Platform releases, each building on top of the innovative feature set from the previous release. Today, we will talk about some of these core features that make hybrid and on-premises data streaming simple, secure, and resilient.

Learn how to use Confluent for Kubernetes to enable GitOps with a CI/CD pipeline and delegate resource creation to groups of people without distributing admin permission passwords to other people in the organization.

Confluent offers a powerful CLI that lets you quickly create and manage Apache Kafka® clusters and Apache Flink® compute pools and all associated operations with both. The CLI now supports plugins that allow for custom commands and creation of dynamic workflows and automation.

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.

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.

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.