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Announcing the Confluent for Startups AI Accelerator Program: Empowering the First Generation of Real-Time AI Startups
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...
Let Flink Cook: Mastering Real-Time Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) with Flink
With AI model inference in Flink SQL, Confluent allows you to simplify the development and deployment of RAG-enabled GenAI applications by providing a unified platform for both data processing and AI tasks. Learn how you can use it to build a RAG-enabled Q&A chatbot using real-time airline data.
Introducing Build with Confluent: Enabling Partners to Bring Data Streaming Use Cases to Market Faster
Build with Confluent helps system integrators develop joint solutions faster, including specialized software bundles, support from data streaming experts to certify offerings, and access to Confluent’s Go-To-Market (GTM) teams to amplify their offering in the market.
Put Your Data to Work: Top 5 Data Technology Trends for 2023
Capturing tech trends has become a bit tricky these days: whatever industry you’re in, uncertainty abounds. That’s made planning more difficult, but businesses are finding new ways to innovate with emerging technology and respond quickly to fast-changing market conditions.
Modernize Your Mainframe With Confluent on IBM zSystems
Today, 92% of the world’s top 100 banks and 72% of the top 25 retailers use mainframes to deliver secure, highly reliable data for their customers. Citigroup even estimates that while banks spend over $200 billion a year on IT, nearly 80% of that money goes towards maintaining mainframe-dependent
Data pipelines: The what, why, and how
Over the last decade, there’s been a massive movement toward digitization. Enterprises are defining their business models, products, and services to innovate, thrive, and compete by being able to quickly discover, understand, and apply their data assets to power real-time use cases.
The 5 Tenets of Data Integration
These days, data is at the core of nearly every business decision. But even as the sheer amount of data and formats has skyrocketed, data sources have become more fragmented and distributed than ever.
The Role of Service Partners with Confluent Cloud
"What is our role with Confluent Cloud?” is a valid question frequently asked by service and delivery partners who have traditionally made money from services related to the installation and upkeep of on-prem applications.
The 7 Practices of a Highly Effective Data Mesh
First, what is a data mesh? “Data mesh” is a hot topic these days when IT infrastructure comes up. Data mesh, in our view, is a concept that involves people, […]
Event Streaming Architectures to Solve Problems for FinServ
Financial institutions generate a constant stream of data: customers opening and closing accounts and making purchases, withdrawals, and deposits. This requires the status and balance of each account to be […]
Ventana Report: Why Centralized Data Governance is Top of Mind
In every industry, real-time data, event-driven systems, and the use of Apache Kafka® have ramped up to the point of being indispensable to business. In fact, streaming data is growing […]
6 Ways Data Streaming is Transforming Financial Services
It should come as no surprise that financial services (FinServ) organizations are fiercely driven when it comes to earning market share. After all, the FinServ industry is projected to reach […]
Real-Time Database Streaming with Confluent and Amazon Aurora
Hello there, we are glad you are here with us in this blog post today. We will be taking a journey by using Confluent technology to efficiently migrate data from […]
Getting Started with Stream Processing: The Ultimate Guide
Whether it’s ordering shoes online, depositing a check through a banking app, or reserving a ride-share to the airport, customers today expect transactions to be fast and seamless. To make […]
Getting Started with Database Modernization
For many companies, the journey to the cloud started as a way to take advantage of the cost savings, speed, and scale of cloud computing. You may have already started […]
Autonomous Networks — The Telco and Media Growth Engine
Why are autonomous networks a critical part of all communication service providers’ (CSPs) infrastructure? A recurring issue for CSPs is the integration of legacy operations support services (OSS) systems. In […]
Accelerate Cloud Database Modernizations and Migrations with Confluent
There is unprecedented growth in the volumes of data being generated by businesses today. Regardless of your industry, better data and data management translates into more informed, strategic decision making. […]