Confluent for Startups provides an easy on-ramp to Confluent Cloud for early stage startups with great data streaming use cases.
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16 Jul
10 Jul
Learn how Confluent Tableflow turns Kafka topics into Iceberg tables for zero-ETL analytics with automatic schema evolution and open catalog access.
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6 Jul
Deep Dive into SASL PLAIN and SCRAM in Kafka: Login Modules and Config Hot-Reload
29 Jun
Learn how Confluent Cloud powers real-time fraud detection with, multi-layered encryption, and built-in financial compliance
Bridge the governance gap in real-time streaming. Learn how Confluent Stream Governance makes compliance an inherent property of data in motion.
23 Jun
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Training-serving skew degrades ML accuracy and doubles infrastructure cost. Learn how a unified kappa architecture eliminates it with Apache Flink and Iceberg.
18 Jun
The dbt-confluent adapter brings dbt's familiar workflow to Confluent Cloud for Apache Flink, enabling data engineers to build and test streaming pipelines with the tools they already use.
15 Jun
Architect audit-ready, EU AI Act-compliant agents with stateful stream processing on Apache Kafka and Flink. Get 7 states, 4 patterns, and a phased rollout.
Compare build vs buy for real-time RAG streaming in 2026. AWS MSK, Redpanda, and Confluent measured on TCO and a four-verb evaluation framework.Build vs Buy Streaming for Real-Time RAG: 2026 Guide
12 Jun
Discover when to use Apache Kafka and when to avoid it. Learn the core differences between event streaming and task queues to scale your systems reliably.
Confluent is a data streaming platform built on Apache Kafka that adds the enterprise tooling, managed infrastructure, and ecosystem integrations that Kafka alone doesn't include.
Confluent is a data streaming platform built on Apache Kafka that adds the enterprise tooling, managed infrastructure, and ecosystem integrations that Kafka alone doesn't include.
1 Jun
Apache Kafka 4.3, a release powered by 25 new KIPs. Apache Kafka 4.3 includes first-class support for preserving record headers in Kafka Streams
28 May
Unify customer data with AI-powered insights. Customer Intelligence Hub helps GTM teams detect risk, uncover growth, and act faster with real-time context.
26 May
Learn how to add your first streaming transformation with Flink. A step-by-step Migration Lite guide to process, enrich, and scale data in real time.
Learn how to integrate RAG and GenAI into a real-time Customer 360 architecture to power compliant, personalized, and AI-driven financial services experiences.
25 May
Explore enterprise RAG and GenAI architectures for regulated and public sectors, with real-time data streaming, governance, and compliance built in.
Learn how digital-native companies build enterprise knowledge management systems using RAG and real-time data streaming to power accurate, scalable AI assistants.
Design autonomous, agentic event-driven systems using real-time data streaming to enable closed-loop AI decisioning, orchestration, and scalable automation.
19 May
Design an agentic fleet management architecture using real-time data streaming to optimize routing, maintenance, and autonomous decision-making at scale.
Enforce encryption & governance centrally with Confluent Private Cloud. Reduce brokers by 73% and secure legacy Kafka clients without code changes or sprawl.
Connect your AI coding assistant to Confluent with MCP servers and Agent Skills. Direct platform access and domain expertise for streaming, now generally available.