Confluent Blog

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...

Explore data-centric security solutions, akin to the yellow brick road journey. Unify security efforts, prioritize data, and modernize SIEM tools for comprehensive protection. Join Confluent's Mike Peacock on Oct 12 for transformative insights and examples.

The benefits of data streaming are numerous—hundreds of organizations have reported increased profitability, better business responsiveness, and multiplying ROI. But understanding just how these organizations achieved these results—and the practical tips and steps to get there—is where things...

Data is a crucial asset for businesses in the digital age, serving as a foundation for informed decision-making and driving strategic growth. In today's highly competitive landscape, companies that harness and analyze data effectively gain a significant competitive advantage. Data provides value...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is playing an increasingly important role in social media. It’s helping to improve the user experience, provide better customer support, and help businesses make more informed decisions. The list of AI-driven applications in social media is continually growing...

Personalization has been the gold standard for online customer interactions for a decade. Companies began with rough segmentation based on tagging content to measure marketing interactions and online behavior patterns. Now, with increased data across companies, a huge SaaS footprint of business...

When Grace Molyneux joined Confluent as a sales development representative (SDR), she was new to sales and eager to learn the tricks of the trade. Now, four years later, she’s been able to grow into her role as an account executive...

The provision of healthcare in the U.S., as well as in many other countries, relies on the interaction of three groups: patients, healthcare providers, and healthcare payers. Interoperability is the ability to communicate data across these separate entities...

DISH Wireless generates an exabyte of data per day—more data that the company can process and understand using legacy infrastructure. These massive volumes of network data hold the key to unlocking powerful Industry 4.0 use cases across industries like retail, manufacturing, and automotive.