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Get ready to pack your bags and head to Las Vegas to meet Confluent at AWS re:Invent 2023. As a Platinum sponsor, we're pulling out all the stops to showcase the full power of our data streaming platform and demonstrate how we can help you get more from your data with Confluent Cloud on AWS.

Back in the 2000s, I was lucky enough to be working at a fantastic software company called Algorithmics, supporting the largest banks with its risk analysis software. At the height of its reach, Algorithmics was voted as the leading enterprise risk firm for market risk, economic capital...

In this blog post, we will provide an overview of Confluent's new SQL Workspaces for Flink, which offer the same functionality for streaming data that SQL users have come to expect for batch-based systems.

Today’s financial services companies are expected to use data to do it all—minimize friction in the customer experience, maximize business efficiency, and innovate. In siloed organizations, these competing goals result in disjointed data strategies and incompatible data sets...

The first-ever Confluent Public Sector Summit confirmed the keen interest government organizations have in using data to better empower their missions. A diverse group of over 160 participants...

Discover how Dialpad integrates data streaming and real-time analytics to power their AI-powered call center solutions.

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...