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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..."

Did you know that women make up only 28% of professionals in the tech industry? What’s more, the percentage of women in tech leadership roles is trending down in recent years. Undoubtedly, the tech industry still has a long way to go in leveling the playing field for women...

The Data Streaming Awards helps recognize and celebrate organizations that are harnessing the power of this innovative technology to transform their businesses—and provide increased value to their customers and communities.

This week, Current | The Next Generation of Kafka Summit kicked off year two of its run as the industry conference for all things Apache Kafka® and real-time data streaming. Hosted in San Jose, the summit welcomed over 2.1k in-person attendees (and 3.5k+ who joined virtually)...

Just under a year ago, Confluent announced the Confluent for Startups program, which provides Confluent Cloud credits to early stage startups trying to get their streaming initiatives off the ground. Since then, we’ve worked with over 150 startups...

The Very Large Data Bases (VLDB) conference is a premier conference for data management systems and is renowned for showcasing cutting-edge research and industry systems. We are delighted to share that our paper, titled "Kora: A Cloud-Native Event Streaming Platform For Kafka"

At Confluent, we are dedicated to fostering a privacy-first culture. We are committed to safeguarding the confidentiality and integrity of our users' personal information, adhering to regulatory requirements, and implementing robust privacy measures.

The Data Streaming Awards is back for its second year! Designed to bring the data streaming community together, this one-of-a-kind industry award recognizes organizations that are harnessing the power of this revolutionary technology to drive business and customer experience transformation.

I'm delighted that Microsoft unveiled the 2023 Partner of the Year Awards winners, where Confluent was named OSS on Azure Partner of the Year for the United States. This award recognizes Microsoft ISVs who excel in delivering outstanding open source-based applications

The National Cybersecurity Strategy released by the Biden-Harris administration in March 2023 was designed to provide direction for developing and evolving the digital ecosystem that will become a key line of defense for the security of our nation

I'm excited to share our intent to acquire Immerok! Together, we’ll build a cloud-native service for Apache Flink that delivers the same simplicity, security, and scalability that you expect from Confluent for Kafka.

At Current 2022 this week, Confluent CEO Jay Kreps welcomed attendees to the brand-new conference. “Where’s Kafka Summit?” he said. “It’s still right here.” As the next generation of Kafka...

Great businesses are built on making the right tradeoffs, and that’s particularly true for startups. At an early stage, a startup’s choices around how and where to deploy its limited […]