A developer argues that AI agents acting on enterprise data face a different reliability problem than human analysts: stale or ambiguous data that once produced merely bad analysis can now trigger bad…
Snowflake announced the general availability of Elastic Channels for Snowpipe Streaming, allowing data to be streamed directly from applications, devices and services into Snowflake tables or Snowflak…
Aiven, Confluent, Redpanda, StreamNative and Ververica announced on Sept. 15, 2026 the formation of the Streamhouse Working Group and published an open, vendor-neutral definition of Streamhouse, a dat…
Confluent released KCP, an open source tool that orchestrates migrations from Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK) to Confluent Cloud, letting teams complete the move in days rather than we…
Confluent cofounder and former Anthropic board member Jay Kreps said in a Thursday X post that AI backers must confront the technology's downside risks, writing that "most positive use cases for AI ha…
Hemut, a Y Combinator Spring 2025 company, has launched an AI-native operating system for trucking carriers and brokers, combining ERP and TMS to automate back-office work and enable real-time fleet m…
Confluent has released over 70 new features to its data streaming platform in the last few months, including expanded Kafka protocol compatibility for Freight clusters, KStreams Debug View, share cons…
Confluent announced new AI capabilities in Confluent Cloud, including the general availability of Real-Time Context Engine, expanded time-series model support with IBM Granite and Google TimesFM model…
Confluent Cloud for Apache Flink now unifies real-time operational systems and dbt/SQL-native analytics for AI, with the Flink Table API generally available in Java and Process Table Functions (PTFs) …
Neuron Systems used Confluent's Data Streaming Platform to serve 2.3 million unique fans with live AI commentary across all 104 FIFA World Cup 2026 matches in 8 languages, maintaining a median glass-t…
A security researcher known as BobDaHacker found that tl;dv, an AI meeting notetaker, left its Firestore 'meetings' collection readable by any authenticated user, exposing 181,874 meeting records from…
Gartner predicts organizations will abandon 60% of AI projects due to inadequate metadata management, data quality, and data observability, prompting experts to advocate for annotating data at collect…
Confluent announced Confluent Platform 8.3, built on Apache Kafka 4.3.0, which includes Confluent Platform for Apache Flink 2.4.0 with an MCP server for AI agent integration, user-defined functions, a…
Confluent reduced Out-of-Memory kill events (OOMKills) in Apache Flink Task Managers by 91.2% and cut peak memory usage by 13% by fixing native-memory leaks and jemalloc fragmentation in Flink's use o…
Confluent named Upvest, a Berlin-based fintech platform, as its 2026 EMEA Data Streaming Startup of the Year for transforming embedded investments with real-time data streaming. Upvest uses Confluent …
IBM's mainframe business faltered as customers redirected budgets toward AI infrastructure, leading to a 7% drop in infrastructure revenue and a 25% plunge in IBM's share price. CEO Arvind Krishna ack…
IBM CEO Arvind Krishna told investors the company 'faltered' in the second quarter, reporting revenue of $17.2 billion, up just 1% and below analyst forecasts, with infrastructure revenue down 7%. Kri…
Redpanda, a C++ reimplementation of the Kafka API, offers lower latency and simpler operations by eliminating JVM garbage collection, but its performance advantages depend on high-end NVMe hardware an…
Apache Polaris, co-created by Snowflake and Dremio, graduated to a Top-Level Project at the Apache Software Foundation in February 2026 after eighteen months of incubation. The project now runs monthl…
Confluent published a technical deep dive comparing SASL PLAIN and SCRAM authentication in Kafka, explaining how different login modules handle credential storage and whether they support hot-reloadin…