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Today, Confluent is excited to announce the 10 global semifinalists for this year’s Data Streaming Startup Challenge! The Data Streaming Startup Challenge, first announced at Current 2023...

Turning events into outcomes at scale is not easy! It starts with knowing what events are actually meaningful to your business or customer’s journey and capturing them. At Confluent, we have a good sense of what these critical events or moments are.

In today's fast-moving world, data streaming platforms are gaining more significance. Whether it's a conventional retail giant like Walmart, which keeps track of inventory levels to avoid stockouts, or a modern, innovative tech company like 10x Banking, which creates unconventional banking...

Telemedicine has widened access to healthcare across the globe. It has allowed people to access services such as video consultations, virtual diagnosis, and remote condition monitoring, helping them to overcome common challenges to obtaining healthcare...

We’re excited to announce the launch of the new fully managed BigQuery Sink V2 Connector, a significant upgrade to our existing BigQuery Sink (Legacy) Connector. The new connector leverages the Google-recommended Storage Write API, adds OAuth 2.0 support...

Confluent offers a powerful CLI that lets you quickly create and manage Apache Kafka® clusters and Apache Flink® compute pools and all associated operations with both. The CLI now supports plugins that allow for custom commands and creation of dynamic workflows and automation.

Happy New Year! It’s not too late to say that, right?

Order management systems (OMS) have evolved from keeping paper records and spreadsheets to using web-based platforms that can automate manual tasks, minimize errors, and optimize inventory levels. In today's fast-paced business environment, managing orders effectively and efficiently is crucial...

Confluent is excited to closely partner with Pinecone as they unveil Pinecone serverless—a new serverless vector database, enabling more developers to build real-time, cost-effective, and highly performant GenAI products.

Learn how to configure Azure Active Directory DS (Azure AD DS) and Confluent Cloud so that the Azure Directory can be used to authenticate and authorize applications to use Confluent Cloud clusters.

The Department of Defense (DOD) has set a clear strategy to become a data-centric agency. This direction is driven by the awareness that data is a strategic asset. To realize this vision, mission-critical data needs to be interoperable and accessible for all strategic...

At Current 2023, we announced that Confluent Cloud is now up to 10x faster than Apache Kafka®, thanks to Kora, The Cloud-Native Kafka engine that powers Confluent Cloud. In this blog post, we will cover what that means in more depth.

British Telecom (BT) is a multinational telecommunications company headquartered in London, England. It was founded in 1980 and has since grown to become one of the largest telecommunications companies in the world, providing a wide range of services including fixed-line services, broadband, mobile.

Confluent Access Management, developed alongside Microsoft Azure, allows organization admins to add and manage users and user permissions after they are created via the Azure portal. See how it works.