Technology

Announcing the release of Apache Kafka 4.0.

Learn how to delete topics in Apache Kafka safely and efficiently. Explore step-by-step instructions, best practices, and important considerations for managing Kafka topics.

Discover how Confluent’s BYOK for Enterprise Clusters and support for EKMs enhance security, and efficient data streaming in our latest blog.

Introduction to Flink SQL FEDERATED_SEARCH() on Confluent cloud. FEDERATED_SEARCH() along with ML_PREDICT() enables developers to execute GenAI use cases with data streaming technologies.

Confluent Cloud now supports Cluster Linking for Azure Private Link, enabling secure data replication between Kafka clusters in private Azure environments. With Cluster Linking, organizations can achieve real-time data movement, disaster recovery, migrations, and secure data sharing

Most AI projects fail not because of bad models, but because of bad data. Siloed, stale, and locked in batch pipelines, enterprise data isn’t AI-ready. This post breaks down the data liberation problem and how streaming solves it—freeing real-time data so AI can actually deliver value.

The concept of “shift left” in building data pipelines involves applying stream governance close to the source of events. Let’s discuss some tools (like Terraform and Gradle) and practices used by data streaming engineers to build and maintain those data contracts.

This article explores how event-driven design—a proven approach in microservices—can address the chaos, creating scalable, efficient multi-agent systems. If you’re leading teams toward the future of AI, understanding these patterns is critical. We’ll demonstrate how they can be implemented.

Learn how Flink enables developers to connect real-time data to external models through remote inference, enabling seamless coordination between data processing and AI/ML workflows.

Learn how to use the recently launched Provisioned Mode for Lambda’s Kafka ESM to build high throughput Kafka applications with Confluent Cloud’s Kafka platform. This blog also exhibits a sample scenario to activate and test the Provisioned Mode for ESM, and outline best practices.

We built an AI-powered tool to automate LinkedIn post creation for podcasts, using Kafka, Flink, and OpenAI models. With an event-driven design, it’s scalable, modular, and future-proof. Learn how this system works and explore the code on GitHub in our latest blog.

FLIP 304 lets you customize and enrich your Flink failure messaging: Assign types to failures, emit custom metrics per type, and expose your failure data to other tools.

Before deploying agentic AI, enterprises should be prepared to address several issues that could impact the trustworthiness and security of the system.

Learn how an e-commerce company integrates the data from its Stripe system with the Pinecone vector database using the new fully managed HTTP Source V2 and HTTP Sink V2 Connectors along with Flink AI model inference in Confluent Cloud to enhance its real-time fraud detection.