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Confluent Named Google Cloud Partner of the Year Amid Accelerating Partnership Momentum
This week in Las Vegas, Google is hosting their annual Google Cloud Next ʼ24 conference, bringing together leaders from across the IT industry to learn about and explore the newest innovations in and around the Google Cloud ecosystem.
2024 Data Streaming Report: Powering AI, Data Product Adoption, and More
In the past, technology served as a supportive function for business. Over time, it has become the business itself. A similar shift is happening with data streaming—data streaming is now a critical foundation of modern business. And this year is an inflection point for data streaming platforms
Confluent Named a Leader in two IDC MarketScape Reports
Confluent has been named a Leader in two different IDC MarketScape reports - the IDC MarketScape for Worldwide Analytic Stream Processing Software 2024 Vendor Assessment, and the IDC MarketScape for Worldwide Event Brokering Software 2024 Vendor Assessment.
Celebrating 1,000 Employees and Looking Towards the Path Ahead
During the holiday season, it’s a particularly relevant time to pause, reflect, and celebrate, both the days past and those ahead. Here at Confluent, it’s a noticeably nostalgic moment, given […]
Every Company is Becoming a Software Company
In 2011, Marc Andressen wrote an article called Why Software is Eating the World. The central idea is that any process that can be moved into software, will be. This […]
Reflections on Event Streaming as Confluent Turns Five – Part 2
When people ask me the very top-level question “why do people use Kafka,” I usually lead with the story in my last post, where I talked about how Apache Kafka® […]
Reflections on Event Streaming as Confluent Turns Five – Part 1
For me, and I think for you, technology is cool by itself. When you first learn how consistent hashing works, it’s fun. When you finally understand log-structured merge trees, it’s […]
Announcing the Confluent Community Catalyst Program
A technology community is made up of people. Without people writing code, writing tutorials, welcoming newcomers, giving presentations, and answering questions, what we have is not a community, but just […]
The PipelineDB Team Joins Confluent
Some years ago, when I was at LinkedIn, I didn’t really know what Apache Kafka® would become but had an inkling that the next generation of applications would not be […]
Confluent Raises a $125M Series D Funding Round
I’m excited to announce that Confluent has raised a $125M Series D funding round, led by Sequoia, with participation from our other major investors, Index Ventures and Benchmark. This builds […]
Welcoming the Distributed Masonry Team to Confluent
Streaming platforms force a fundamental rethink of the way companies treat the data that describes and drives their business, taking us away from the static notion of data which sits […]
Introducing Confluent Hub
Today we’re delighted to announce the launch of Confluent Hub. Confluent Hub is a place for the Apache Kafka and Confluent Platform community to come together and share the components […]
Confluent and Apache Kafka in 2017
2017 was an amazing year for Apache Kafka® as an open source project and for Confluent as a company. I wanted to take moment to thank all the contributors and […]
The Arrival of Streaming: Confluent Raises $50 Million Series C
I have some exciting news to share: we’ve completed a $50 million investment led by our newest partner, Sequoia Capital and Matt Miller of Sequoia will be joining our board […]
Kinetica Joins Confluent Partner Program and Releases Confluent Certified Connector for Apache Kafka®
This guest post is written by Chris Prendergast, VP of Business Development and Alliances at Kinetica. Today, we’re excited to announce that we have joined the Confluent Partner Program and […]
Hello World, Kafka Connect + Kafka Streams
Important: The information in this article is outdated. With recent Kafka versions the integration between Kafka Connect and Kafka Streams as well as KSQL has become much simpler and easier. […]
Announcing Confluent University: World-Class Apache Kafka Training
I’m pleased to announce the launch of Confluent University: world-class Apache Kafka training now available both onsite and at public venues. Although we’ve been offering onsite training to our customers […]