Confluent Blog

This is the Q3 CwC announcement blog—a quarterly installment introducing new entrants into the Connect with Confluent technology partner program. Every blog has a new theme, this blog celebrates the 1-year anniversary of the program.

The beauty of Kafka as a technology is that it can do a lot with little effort on your part. In effect, it’s a black box. But what if you need to see into the black box to debug something? This post shows what the producer does behind the scenes to help prepare your raw event data for the broker.

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.

Transportation providers have long relied on manual processes to keep their operations flowing. While manual processes have underpinned the operations of these companies for years, they’ve also held them back from scaling. Busie, enables ground transportation providers to provide this kind of...

Apna has become India's leading job site with more than 50 million users by leveraging a modern data infrastructure built on Confluent Cloud and Onehouse's universal data lakehouse. This architecture shift has improved their data integration, reduced costs, and enabled rapid innovation, including...

62% of Confluent Cloud clusters run on AWS. Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of customers are using DynamoDB. This blog explains how the connector helps customers integrate both platforms together.

For Staff Security GRC Program Manager Janis Hom, it's working alongside a team of highly motivated individuals—who help create an atmosphere of excellence and progress—that pushes her to perform at her best.

Let’s learn more about Janis and how she’s always learning something new at Confluent.

Since launching our first cloud connector in 2019, Confluent’s fully managed connectors have handled hundreds of petabytes of data & expanded to include over 80 fully managed connectors, custom connectors, and private networking. Discover popular connectors, SMTs, and use cases on Confluent Cloud...

Been searching far and wide for examples of Spring Boot with Kotlin integrated with Apache Kafka®? You’ve found it. But not just an example with unstructured data or no schema management. Not here! We’re going all the way with Stream Governance in Confluent Cloud. Let’s get into it.

On September 17-18, the data streaming world will descend upon Austin, Texas for Current 2024––bringing the community together to discuss all things Apache Kafka® and Apache Flink®. You’ll hear from tech leaders, industry giants, and startups as they drop a seemingly endless supply of knowledge...

Skai completely revamped its interactive, ad-campaign dashboard by adding Apache Kafka and an in-memory database—eventually moving the solution to Confluent Cloud. Once on the Cloud, they devised an ingenious architecture for reducing the number of topics they needed.

We are excited to announce the release of a new Confluent Cloud Homepage UI, inspired by many conversations and features requests from our customer and field teams. In the past, many users bypassed the Homepage as just another click in the way of what they are trying to accomplish. This redesign...

Learn how Confluent Cloud and BigQuery Continuous Queries work together to enable real-time data processing, including the benefits of the integration with BigQuery Continuous Query and a step-by-step guide on setting up getting data from BQ Continuous Query and Confluent Cloud to capture data...

BT Group, a large telecoms company based in the UK, has been on a journey to creating a ‘Smart Event Mesh’ with Confluent, enabling the availability of well-governed, real-time streams of data across a hybrid cloud environment. Learn how they’ve navigated this journey so far.