Confluent Blog

I’m thrilled to share that earlier this week, Microsoft announced its 2022 Partner of the Year Award winners, and Confluent won Microsoft’s Commercial Marketplace Partner of the Year Award (Global). […]

An interview with Keerthana Srikanth, Confluent Software Engineer A computer science graduate from the prestigious Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani, 23-year-old Keerthana joined Confluent’s Observability Team following a […]

Confluent for Kubernetes (CFK) has added declarative API support for Cluster Linking, allowing you to connect public and private cloud environments with a declarative API. Confluent for Kubernetes provides a […]

Real-time data streaming necessitates a new way to think about modern data system design. In the keynote at Kafka Summit London 2022, Confluent CEO Jay Kreps described five principles of […]

Why are autonomous networks a critical part of all communication service providers’ (CSPs) infrastructure? A recurring issue for CSPs is the integration of legacy operations support services (OSS) systems. In […]

The Call for Papers for Current 2022: The Next Generation of Kafka Summit is in full swing, with speakers from around the data streaming world putting their best talks forward […]

When Willie Osborn joined Confluent three years ago, it was to spend his days thinking about growth—but not just in terms of revenue. Below, Willie explains why he believes developing […]

We live in exciting times, a moment rich with dramatic tech innovations and transformative, data-driven business changes. While the opportunities before us are great, so are the challenges. Big ideas […]

An inevitable consequence of rapid business growth is that there will be incidents: even the best, most well-planned systems will begin to fail when you expand them very quickly. The […]

Elasticity is one of the table stakes for a mature cloud service. Elasticity enables the addition of capacity in a cloud service as needed to meet spikes in demand, and […]

We are excited to bring forward yet another ksqlDB release with ksqlDB 0.26. This time we have focused on improving your experience with aggregate functions, JOINs, and schemas. We have […]

People often imagine that to provide a cloud service for a piece of open source software is a simple matter of packaging up the open source and putting it in […]

At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020, Instacart experienced its highest customer demand in history. Its customer-facing applications, backend systems, and business processes were all put to […]

Amid a successful career at Amazon, Tiffany Jianto found herself deciding between another tech giant and Confluent. Below, she explains why she chose to join our team, how she supports […]