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 …
Confluent Cloud launched Tableflow, a managed feature that materializes Apache Kafka topics as Apache Iceberg or Delta Lake tables, eliminating custom data pipelines by automatically handling schemati…
Confluent Cloud introduces new capabilities for building secure, resilient, and compliant fraud detection systems in financial services, addressing the need for real-time streaming to prevent fraud be…
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…
Confluent Cloud launched a dbt adapter that lets data engineers manage streaming SQL transformations with the same CI/CD, testing, and documentation workflows used for batch data. The adapter, built o…
Confluent Cloud introduces stateful stream processing to help enterprises build compliant AI agents under the EU AI Act, which mandates automatic lifetime event logging for high-risk AI systems. The a…
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 …
Apache Kafka is a distributed commit log for reliably moving ordered event streams between systems at scale, but it introduces significant operational complexity. Engineering teams should use Kafka fo…
Apache Kafka 4.3.0 has been released with 25 KIPs and over 600 commits, introducing new features such as broker configuration for follower fetch from tiered offset, cordoning of log directories, and d…
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, …
Confluent Cloud launched a new enterprise knowledge management architecture using Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) that connects large language models to real-time streaming data, replacing batch-…