Confluent Blog

Every consumer action in our modern world creates data, and businesses must make sense of it quickly to take advantage of opportunities in real time. This is especially true in the quickly maturing world of financial services...

First quarterly update of the CwC program since launch in July of 2023. Primary goal is to showcase the 12 new partners in the program.

In 2023, business analytics and business intelligence have both been around for long enough to have been adopted by most companies as a requirement for effectively operating their businesses. With this has come whole ecosystems of tools and technologies to capture, process, and glean insights...

The Apache Flink PMC is pleased to announce the release of Apache Flink 1.18.0. As usual, we are looking at a packed release with a wide variety of improvements and new features. Overall, 174 people contributed to this release completing 18 FLIPS and 700+ issues.

With Halloween just a few days away and temperatures dropping (in most parts of the world!), it’s safe to say that we’re right in the middle of “spooky season.” And while ghosts and ghouls may bring delight to those who enjoy a scary movie or two, there’s one nightmarish creature..

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.

Winner of the Data Streaming Company of the Year award in 2022, NASA has already been recognized for its advanced use of Apache Kafka®. What the organization has already achieved with data streaming is impressive, but the agency’s unique internal structure

Supporting citizen customers is the basic function of government, but the ways in which agencies do so has changed a lot over the years. Where once paperwork and long queues were default customer experiences for customers, digitization has made possible a much more streamlined...

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.

The landscape for how a business interacts with its customers has changed dramatically over the last several years. No longer is day-old data acceptable to customers or the business. One of the sectors most impacted by this seismic change has been retail...

The record-breaking attendance at our last two DC-area Data in Motion tour events told us there is a thirst for information on how to implement data streaming in government environments, whether you’re improving services, incorporating IoT data, or complying with new regulations and mandates.

Stream processing flips the data processing paradigm – from store then process (as in batch process) to process then store if needed. In data streaming, analytical queries are predefined and computed, and data flows over the queries. This changed paradigm requires comprehending new concepts...

Apache Kafka 3.6 is here! This release includes Tiered Storage (Early Access), the ability to migrate clusters from ZooKeeper to KRaft with no downtime, the addition of a grace period to stream-table joins, & more!

Account Executive Sinan Ezer will tell you that it was the energy he felt during the interview process that drew him to Confluent. Three years in, he currently leads the sales team in Turkey. Let’s learn more about what Sinan’s typical work day looks like...