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…
Lightning AI, the PyTorch-tooling company that merged with GPU cloud provider Voltage Park in January 2026 to form a roughly $2.5 billion AI cloud, named Peter Bershatsky Vice President of Strategy an…
Confluent launched Stream Governance, a suite of tools for Confluent Cloud that brings enterprise-grade governance, security, and compliance controls to streaming data, addressing the gap left by lega…
Object storage is becoming primary storage for databases, streaming systems, and AI pipelines, shifting the key benchmark from GB/s to objects per second at small sizes. Companies like WarpStream, Cli…
S2.dev, a San Francisco-based startup founded in 2024, has raised $3.85 million in seed funding led by Accel to develop a serverless API that treats durable real-time streams as a fundamental cloud st…
Confluent released a 2026 guide recommending a unified streaming (kappa) architecture to eliminate training-serving skew in ML pipelines, citing DoorDash's 35.7% feature-value mismatch and Netflix's $…
Confluent released a guide for building real-time hyper-personalization systems using streaming-native data engines, arguing that batch architectures cannot capture user intent within the critical sec…
Confluent's annual Data Streaming Report, surveying 4,625 IT leaders across 14 countries, found that 32% of organizations have agentic AI in production in 2026, up from 29% in 2025, while 72% cite a l…
Enterprise adoption of agentic AI in production rose to 32% in 2026, up from 29% in 2025, but governance and data quality issues are stalling progress, according to Confluent's Data Streaming Report s…
Confluent released a guide arguing that production real-time retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) is a distributed systems problem, not an API orchestration challenge, and recommends most enterprises …
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office granted Cohesity Patent No. 12,619,501 for technology underlying its Cohesity Gaia generative AI platform, covering a method that combines secondary data systems w…
Confluent has internally developed the Customer Intelligence Hub (CIH), an application that centralizes customer signals from multiple systems into a single prioritized view for go-to-market teams. Th…
ClickHouse creator and CTO Alexey Milovidov completed a 12-day, five-country tour across Asia-Pacific in April, meeting customers and speaking at events in India, Singapore, Indonesia, South Korea, an…
Confluent Cloud has launched new capabilities to integrate Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and generative AI into Customer 360 architectures, shifting from traditional batch-based systems to real…
Confluent Cloud introduces new capabilities for building secure, compliant Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architectures in regulated industries and the public sector, addressing data residency, …
Gunnar Morling, a technologist at Confluent and Java Champion, discussed building high-performance Java applications in the data space, including his work on Hardwood, a zero-dependency Java parser fo…