Managing Flink SQL operations, monitoring, migrations, and governance in separate workflows creates a ton of friction for platform teams. Confluent Platform 8.3 fixes that. Built on Apache Kafka 4.3, this release is here to let you scale data in motion with complete control. 🧵👇
The 2026 Data Streaming Report is here! We asked 4.5K+ IT leaders how they’re accelerating AI adoption, unlocking business value from data, and competing in an increasingly real-time world. The results are in. Check out the findings → https://cnfl.io/4vffp1K
Every enterprise has a data monster. And a way to take control. From AI to analytics, supercharge innovation with reusable, reliable, real-time data on The World’s Data Streaming Platform. 👉 https://cnfl.io/4apaLWz
Stop chasing data across tools and start acting on what actually matters. Meet Customer Intelligence Hub: a real-time, AI-powered view of your customer accounts. Here’s how we’re using it internally as Customer Zero: https://cnfl.io/4nZCR0b
We’re taking the Data Streaming World Tour to you! 🫵 Missed a chance to join us in person? Great news: our next stop is the World Wide Web. Catch a keynote on building intelligent systems, a fireside chat with Focal Systems, a session from Databricks, and more on June 10: https://cnfl.io/4wiaq18
Back at Current NOLA, we introduced Confluent Private Cloud and promised an infrastructure cost reduction of up to 50%. Today, we’re proving that claim with hard data and extending CPC with broker-native multi-tenancy that eliminates cluster sprawl at the root. → https://cnfl.io/4dPC6TY #Current26
Trust us, data monsters are easier to wrangle when they're small. At #Current26 London? Stop by the booth to snag a data monster plushie of your own!
Live from the #Current26 London keynote: We’re moving Confluent Intelligence into its next phase with the GA launch of our Real-Time Context Engine and Streaming Agents, expanded agent operations and skills, more model support, and new ML functions. Learn more: https://cnfl.io/4wyr3pL
We’re making AI-ready streaming accessible across the data, pipelines, and ops that your teams already manage and the workflows they’re already familiar with. Here’s what’s new in our latest Confluent Cloud launch, coming to you live from #Current26 London! ⤵️
Great news: #Current26 London is less than a week away! Even better news: The party won’t stop after we wrap up at the Excel. 👀 Current is coming to San Francisco this November! Register your interest and get ready to be the first into the future. 👉 https://cnfl.io/42Nhk1f
Don’t just hear about the future. Join us in building it! At the #Current26 London keynote, Jay Kreps, Shaun Clowes, Can Sözeri from Getir, and industry thought leaders will show how data streaming powers AI with shift-left strategies, live demos, and real-world wins. 👉 https://cnfl.io/4cZXrJV
Simpler to Build On. Simpler to Run. Confluent Platform 8.2 is here! Built on Apache Kafka 4.2, this update extends and simplifies what you can do with Kafka and Apache Flink.
All technical. All data. All. Day. Long. Thanks to everyone who joined us at our first-ever #underCurrent in San Francisco!
Two features make WarpStream the fastest, most reliable diskless Kafka product available. ⚡️ ️Lightning Topics: Ultra-low produce latency with a p50 of 33ms and p99 of 50ms. 🪂 Ripcord Mode: Continue processing produce requests even when the Control Plane is unavailable. buff.ly/PaAaxH6
Kafka isn't a database, but we gave it a query engine anyway. Introducing WarpStream Events: 📈 Search and visualize Agent logs, ACL decisions, and pipeline execution logs ⚒️ No more wrangling multiple tools ☑️ Get built-in observability with zero ops www.warpstream.com/blog/warpstr...
Registration for our Agentic AI Streamposium is open! This exclusive virtual event is designed for developers, architects, and data engineers looking for hands-on experience building real-time, context-rich AI agents. Sound like you? Save your spot here → https://cnfl.io/4bM5l9d
It’s official! IBM has closed its acquisition of Confluent. Together, we’ll deliver a smart data platform built to support enterprise AI at scale. Learn more here: www.confluent.io/press-releas...
Azure users, ICYMI: 🔷 Tableflow is now GA on Microsoft Azure! No more manual ETL, turn Apache Kafka topics into Iceberg tables with one click.
Queues for Kafka is now GA on Confluent Cloud and Confluent Platform! 🎉 Native queue semantics, elastic consumer scaling, and per-message acks and nacks on #ApacheKafka so you can consolidate streaming + queuing. Learn more: https://cnfl.io/3N2h6ic
Current 26 Registration is officially OPEN! 🪅 We’re bringing the global data streaming community to London this May. 🇬🇧 Two days of networking, innovation, technical deep dives, and hands-on workshops with some very special guests! Early Bird pricing available now 👉 https://cnfl.io/4savLXF
Important updates just landed across the Apache Kafka client ecosystem. Async support for Python is now GA, improved Avro support for Schema Registry and more. These updates make it easier to run Kafka clients reliably in production. Check them out below! ⤵️
What’s New in Confluent Kafka Clients 2.13.0: Python Async GA and More
Confluent Kafka Clients 2.13.0 brings Python asyncio GA, Schema Registry improvements, security updates, and performance enhancements across languages.
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Apache Kafka migrations can be as easy as Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V. (Or Cmd+C, Cmd+V for the 🍎 crowd.) Learn how Kafka Copy Paste, our new open-source CLI tool, streamlines migration from hosted Kafka to Confluent Cloud by eliminating 70% of the manual work you'd usually expect: https://cnfl.io/4tXyLZ2
We're making it even easier to enable agent collaboration, detect complex anomalies, bring more vector stores into your RAG workflows, and standardize how your agents tap into real-time data. 🤖 Catch up on everything new in Confluent Intelligence: https://cnfl.io/3OPli5v
No matter what you’re tackling, today’s Confluent Cloud launch is built for you. 💙 Struggling to unify queues and streams? Queues for Kafka support is here! Bracing for a lengthy migration? Shrink that timeline with Kafka Copy Paste.
Registration officially opens NEXT WEEK for #Current26 London. Mark your calendars and get ready 🏁 Sign up for the "First to Know" list here 👉 https://cnfl.io/3Ovo4Nh
Looking to learn about Apache Iceberg and Tableflow? Our 🆕 14-module course hosted by @tlberglund.bsky.social covers how Iceberg brings transactions, time travel, and painless schema evolution to petabyte-scale data lakes. Get started: https://cnfl.io/4c07BdH
Learn how Python developers build real-time AI agents using MCP, Kafka, and Flink—modern agentic workflows explained on HackerNoon. #pythonmcpaiagents
How Python Devs Can Build AI Agents Using MCP, Kafka, and Flink
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⏱️ Disaster recovery in less than a minute. 🆕 on the Confluent Blog: Check out this step-by-step proof-of-concept for orchestrating an Apache Kafka client failover using Confluent Cloud Gateway and Cluster Linking. 👉 https://cnfl.io/3MCac33
It’s here! The 2nd Edition of The Ultimate Data Streaming Guide has arrived. AI is only as good as the data behind it. Stale data from yesterday's ETL job won’t cut it for agentic systems. Discover why data streaming is the real-time foundation for AI in this new book: https://cnfl.io/3O03c0b
Cloud API Keys vs. Resource-Specific API Keys What’s the difference? When should you pick one over the other? Get a breakdown of the scope of access granted by the two key types on Confluent Cloud and the best practices for service accounts + production security: https://cnfl.io/4qIu9nB
