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Whether on shore or on land, cruise companies need to be moving fast and in real time to bring customers stellar experiences. See how a real-time data streaming platform can bridge the gaps for smooth sailing.

Our latest updates to Confluent Cloud focus on enabling customers to realize a seamless experience using our data streaming platform. With these improvements, we aim to provide a more streamlined and secure experience, allowing users to focus on leveraging real-time data to drive business outcomes.

Ratish had been monitoring Confluent’s growth and performance for some time and upon speaking with the team, he was convinced that Confluent would be an excellent place to work, especially given the number of talented engineers that he knew previously, who had also joined the business.

When you are focused on protecting more than 500 million people worldwide, you’re always exploring avenues that can get you to the next frontier of empowering individuals against cyber threats.

Imagine easily enriching data streams and building stream processing applications in the cloud, without worrying about capacity planning, infrastructure and runtime upgrades, or performance monitoring. That's where our serverless Apache Flink® service comes in.

It's estimated that by 2024, global spending on telecom services will exceed $1.5 trillion. As the critical enabler of growth and innovation across many industries, telecommunication service providers are adopting a cloud-first approach to accelerate time to market, integrate with leading...

Gartner has placed Confluent as a “Niche Player” in the 2023 Gartner Data Integration Tools Magic Quadrant*, noting this key strength: “Depth of data streaming/Apache Kafka understanding and support: Confluent has comprehensive stand-alone and fully managed service offerings for Apache Kafka..."

As companies increase their use of real-time data, we have seen the proliferation of Kafka clusters within many enterprises. Often, siloed application and infrastructure teams set up and manage new clusters to solve new use cases as they arise. In many large, complex enterprises, this organic growth

Machines in motion, much like data in motion, require an engine to drive their journey. While Confluent and Apache Kafka® are your data-based engine, transitioning the perspective from software and data to hardware requires a more literal engine. No matter the machine—planes, trains, or automobiles

Today, we’re excited to announce the general availability of Data Portal on Confluent Cloud. Data Portal is built on top of Stream Governance, the industry’s only fully managed data governance suite for Apache Kafka® and data streaming.

From fraud prevention, autonomous vehicles, voice assistants, and intelligent cybersecurity systems that protect our networks, to recommendation engines, dynamic pricing, and predictive maintenance, streaming analytics infused with AI and machine learning (ML)...

Learn how to interact with the librdkafka library when sending and how to handle errors correctly. Take a deepdive into the internal mechanics of the library.

Over years of managing the data streaming needs of top global financial institutions, our system engineers and field CTOs have amassed a wealth of expertise around the critical path to modernizing a core banking system.