The Complete Guide to Data Streaming Use Cases

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Data streaming is enabling real-time insights and innovation across industries like financial services, manufacturing, retail, and more. This comprehensive guide explores how the shift from batch data processing to continuous, event-driven architectures helps businesses achieve agility, scalability, and competitive advantage.

Packed with use cases and real-world success stories summarized by Confluent Field CTO Kai Waehner, this book highlights the transformative power of data streaming, stream processing, and event-driven frameworks. Learn how to leverage streaming architectures to unify operational and analytical data flows and create trustworthy data products that solve critical business challenges in real time.

Read the book —and a foreword by Confluent CEO Jay Kreps— to learn:

Key business benefits of adopting data streaming for real-time decision-making.
How industries leverage streaming to optimize operations and improve customer experiences.
The importance of event-driven architectures and unified data platforms.
Strategies to scale and mature your data streaming capabilities.
How to foster internal communities to drive adoption and innovation.

Take the next step on your data streaming journey—download the book now to unlock new opportunities for innovation and growth in your industry.

The Ultimate Data Streaming Guide

Kai WaehnerGlobal Field CTO, Confluent

Kai Waehner is Field CTO at Confluent. He works with customers across the globe and with internal teams like engineering and marketing. Kai’s main area of expertise lies within the fields of Data Streaming, Analytics, Hybrid Cloud Architectures, Internet of Things, and Blockchain. Kai is a regular speaker at international conferences such as Devoxx, ApacheCon and Kafka Summit, writes articles for professional journals, and shares his experiences with new technologies on his blog: www.kai-waehner.de. Contact: kai.waehner@confluent.io / www.linkedin.com/in/kaiwaehner

Evi SchneiderGlobal Lead, Demand Generation & Expansion

Evi was already studying the influences of communication during her studies in phonetics and psycholinguistics. Today, she puts these theories into practice as a passionate marketer in the IT industry, with a focus on account-based marketing and strategic technology positioning within enterprises through community building. Working as the Global Lead, Demand Generation and Expansion at Confluent, she develops and executes marketing strategies based on successful data streaming use cases across industries. Contact: evi@confluent.io / www.linkedin.com/in/evischneider/