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Imagine you’ve been working with Confluent and just got your new streaming pipeline set up to power your new predictive maintenance solution. Next, you look to implement machine learning (ML) […]

Apache Kafka® is an enormously successful piece of data infrastructure, functioning as the ubiquitous distributed log underlying the modern enterprise. It is scalable, available as a managed service, and has […]

Today, we are delighted to announce Confluent’s expanded partnership with VMware Tanzu. Together, we’re offering our joint customers a complete, cloud-native experience for application developers and platform operators to set […]

Today, as part of our expanded partnership with Elastic, we are announcing an update to the fully managed Elasticsearch Sink Connector in Confluent Cloud. This update allows you to take […]

When companies need help with their vehicle fleets—including transport, storage, or renewing expired registrations—they don’t want to have to deal with multiple vehicle logistics providers. For these companies, ACERTUS provides […]

To effectively use ksqlDB, the streaming database for Apache Kafka®, you should of course be familiar with its features and syntax. However, a deeper understanding of what goes on underneath […]

Sometimes you’d like to write your own code for producing data to an Apache Kafka® topic and connecting to a Kafka cluster programmatically. Confluent provides client libraries for several different […]

We’re pleased to announce ksqlDB 0.20.0! The 0.20 ksqlDB release includes support for the DATE and TIME data types, along with functionality for working with these types. The DATE type […]

We are thrilled to be named Google Cloud Technology Partner of the Year – Smart Analytics for the third straight year. By building on Google’s open cloud with Confluent’s open […]

The Confluent Q3 ‘21 release is here and packed full of new features that enable the world’s most innovative businesses to continue building what keeps them on top: real-time, mission-critical […]

Today, Confluent is announcing the general availability (GA) of the fully managed Azure Cosmos DB Sink Connector within Confluent Cloud. Now, with just a few simple clicks, you can link […]

It is often difficult enough to build one application that talks to a single middleware or backend layer; e.g., a whole team of frontend engineers may build a web application […]

Today, I’m very excited to announce an all-new website dedicated to Apache Kafka®, event streaming, and associated cloud technologies. The site is called Confluent Developer, and it represents a significant […]

It’s about maintaining the right data even when no one is watching. Last year, Confluent announced support for Infinite Storage, which fundamentally changes data retention in Apache Kafka® by allowing […]