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Confluent Named Google Cloud Partner of the Year Amid Accelerating Partnership Momentum
This week in Las Vegas, Google is hosting their annual Google Cloud Next ʼ24 conference, bringing together leaders from across the IT industry to learn about and explore the newest innovations in and around the Google Cloud ecosystem.
2024 Data Streaming Report: Powering AI, Data Product Adoption, and More
In the past, technology served as a supportive function for business. Over time, it has become the business itself. A similar shift is happening with data streaming—data streaming is now a critical foundation of modern business. And this year is an inflection point for data streaming platforms
Confluent Named a Leader in two IDC MarketScape Reports
Confluent has been named a Leader in two different IDC MarketScape reports - the IDC MarketScape for Worldwide Analytic Stream Processing Software 2024 Vendor Assessment, and the IDC MarketScape for Worldwide Event Brokering Software 2024 Vendor Assessment.
Kafka Summit San Francisco 2019 Session Videos
Last week, the Kafka Summit hosted nearly 2,000 people from 40 different countries and 595 companies—the largest Summit yet. By the numbers, we got to enjoy four keynote speakers, 56 […]
Kafka Summit San Francisco 2019: Day 2 Recap
If you looked at the Kafka Summits I’ve been a part of as a sequence of immutable events (and they are, unless you know something about time I don’t), it […]
Kafka Summit San Francisco 2019: Day 1 Recap
Day 1 of the event, summarized for your convenience. They say you never forget your first Kafka Summit. Mine was in New York City in 2017, and it had, what, […]
Every Company is Becoming a Software Company
In 2011, Marc Andressen wrote an article called Why Software is Eating the World. The central idea is that any process that can be moved into software, will be. This […]
How to Make the Most of Kafka Summit San Francisco 2019
Kafka Summit San Francisco is just one week away. Conferences can be busy affairs, so here are some tips on getting the most out of your time there. Plan Go […]
Reflections on Event Streaming as Confluent Turns Five – Part 2
When people ask me the very top-level question “why do people use Kafka,” I usually lead with the story in my last post, where I talked about how Apache Kafka® […]
Reflections on Event Streaming as Confluent Turns Five – Part 1
For me, and I think for you, technology is cool by itself. When you first learn how consistent hashing works, it’s fun. When you finally understand log-structured merge trees, it’s […]
Top 10 Reasons to Attend Kafka Summit
Yes, the other definition of event sourcing. 1. Keynotes from leading technologists At Kafka Summit SF, you’ll get to hear incredible keynotes from leading technologists, including Jay Kreps and Neha […]
Why I Can’t Wait for Kafka Summit San Francisco
The Kafka Summit Program Committee recently published the schedule for the San Francisco event, and there’s quite a bit to look forward to. For starters, it is a two-day event, […]
Kafka Summit London 2019 Session Videos
Let us cut to the chase: Kafka Summit London session videos are available! If you were there, you know what a great time it was, and you know that you […]
Announcing the Confluent Community Catalyst Program
A technology community is made up of people. Without people writing code, writing tutorials, welcoming newcomers, giving presentations, and answering questions, what we have is not a community, but just […]
The PipelineDB Team Joins Confluent
Some years ago, when I was at LinkedIn, I didn’t really know what Apache Kafka® would become but had an inkling that the next generation of applications would not be […]
Kafka Summit New York 2019 Session Videos
It seems like there’s a Kafka Summit every other month. Of course there’s not—it’s every fourth month—but hey, close enough. We now have the Kafka Summit New York in the […]
Kafka Summit 2019: 3 Big Things!
How many Kafka Summits should there be in a year? Experts disagree. Some say there should be one giant event where everybody gathers at once. Some say there should be […]