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Confluent is leading the way in a new type of data infrastructure that emphasizes data in motion. Our cloud-based platform serves as the essential foundation for managing real-time data, allowing information from various sources to flow seamlessly throughout an organization. By using Confluent, businesses can address the growing need to provide engaging digital experiences and run operations in real-time. Our goal is to empower every organization to leverage data in motion, enabling them to succeed and excel in today's fast-paced environment.

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Confluent Cloud Q4 '24 brings more security to the platform

Jan 14, 2025 | confluent.io | Hannah Miao

As we step into the new year, it’s the perfect time to reflect on the exciting advancements Confluent made in 2024. Our Q4 launch wrapped up the year with a host of powerful features paving the way for even more innovation in 2025. This launch is all about delivering private networking and enhanced security across the data streaming platform.
Reworkd Scales Real-Time Web Scraping With Data Streaming and GenAI

Jan 5, 2025 | confluent.io | Adam Watkins

In building the next generation of web agents, we need the simplest, fastest way to extract web data at scale for production use cases. And for every new generative AI (GenAI) application, developers and businesses need reliable data to power the underlying models. But getting that data in a usable, trustworthy format? That’s where things get complicated.
Headless Data Architecture, Part 2: How to Build It

Oct 25, 2024 | confluent.io | Adam Bellemare

The headless data architecture is the formalization of a data access layer at the center of your organization. Encompassing both streams and tables, it provides consistent data access for both operational and analytical use cases. Streams provide low-latency capabilities to enable timely reactions to events, while tables provide higher-latency but extremely batch-efficient querying capabilities. You simply choose the most relevant processing head for your requirements and plug it into the data.
Headless Data Architecture, Explained for Developers

Oct 17, 2024 | confluent.io | Adam Bellemare

The headless data architecture is an organic emergence of the separation of data storage, management, optimization, and access from the services that write, process, and query it. With this architecture, you can manage your data from a single logical location, including permissions, schema evolution, and table optimizations.
Migrate from ZooKeeper to KRaft with Confluent for Kubernetes

Oct 14, 2024 | confluent.io | David Arthur |Chase Thomas

We are now in the final chapter of Apache Kafka’s® multi-year journey to remove Apache ZooKeeper™ and fully transition to self-managed metadata in KRaft. Many Kafka users and customers are beginning to migrate to KRaft and are eager to understand its performance characteristics in production environments.
Preventing and Fixing Bad Data in Event Streams, Part 2

Oct 11, 2024 | confluent.io | Adam Bellemare

Alright, I’m back. Time for part 2. In the first part, I covered how we handle bad data in batch processing. In particular, cutting out the bad data, replacing it, and running it again. But this strategy doesn’t work for immutable event streams as they are, well, immutable. You can’t cut out and replace bad data like you would in batch processed data sets.
Preventing and Fixing Bad Data in Event Streams

Oct 4, 2024 | confluent.io | Adam Bellemare

At a high level, bad data is data that doesn’t conform to what is expected. For example, an email address without the “@”, or a credit card expiry where the MM/YY format is swapped to YY/MM. “Bad” can also include malformed and corrupted data, such that it’s completely indecipherable and effectively garbage. In any case, bad data can cause serious issues and outages for all downstream data users, such as data analysts, scientists, engineers, and ML & AI practitioners.
Getting Started With Confluent for VS Code

Sep 17, 2024 | confluent.io | Adi Polak |Matthew Seal |Olivia Greene

Today, we’re excited to announce the Early Access Program for Confluent for VS Code! Confluent has integrated support for Visual Studio with Confluent for VS Code that streamlines workflows, accelerates development cycles, and enhances real-time data processing, all within a unified environment.
CC Q3 '24 brings updates to Flink, client-side field level encryption, easier sizing with new broker metrics, and more!

Sep 17, 2024 | confluent.io | Olivia Greene

The Q3 Cloud Bundle Launch comes to you from Current 2024, where data streaming industry experts have come together to show you why data streaming is critical today, especially in the age of AI, and how it will become even more important in shaping tomorrow’s businesses. This year’s Current event attracted over 2,500 attendees, both in-person and virtual, and featured 140+ learning sessions by industry experts.
How Developers Can Use Generative AI to Improve Data Quality

Sep 10, 2024 | confluent.io | Andrew Sellers

It sounds counterintuitiveāusing a technology that has trust issues to create more trustworthy data. But smart engineers can put generative AI to work to improve the quality of their data, allowing them to build more accurate and trustworthy AI-powered applications. Generative AI models are remarkable for their ability to answer questions in human-like sentences, but they are prone to hallucination, and they canāt derive insight from internal company data that wasnāt part of their training.