🌟 Meet our Catalyst of the Week, Jiangjie Qin! Jiangjie has been an incredible part of the streaming community for over 10 years, contributing to both Apache Kafka® and Apache Flink® and helping shape their ecosystems through ongoing technical contributions. Beyond his development work, Jiangjie regularly shares his expertise through conference talks and has served multiple times on the Program Committees for Kafka Summit, Current, and Flink Forward. Thanks for everything you do for the community, Jiangjie! 🙌 Learn more about our Catalyst program: https://cnfl.io/3P50GGo
Confluent
Software Development
Mountain View, California 702,631 followers
The World's Data Streaming Platform
About us
Confluent is pioneering a fundamentally new category of data infrastructure focused on data in motion. Our cloud-native offering is the foundational platform for data in motion --- designed to be the intelligent connective tissue enabling real-time data, from multiple sources, to constantly stream across the organization. With Confluent, our customers can meet the new business imperative of delivering rich, digital customer experiences and real-time business operations. Our mission is to help every organization harness data in motion so they can compete and thrive in the modern world.
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http://confluent.io/
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- Industry
- Software Development
- Company size
- 1,001-5,000 employees
- Headquarters
- Mountain View, California
- Type
- Public Company
- Founded
- 2014
- Specialties
- Apache Kafka, Open Source, Stream Processing, Streaming Data, Event Streaming Platform, and Event-Driven Architecture
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Confluent Cloud
Event Stream Processing (ESP) Software
Confluent Cloud is the cloud-native service for Apache Kafka®. Connect and process all of your data in real time with a fully managed data streaming platform available everywhere you need it. Try it now for free!
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What if your engineers only had to think about producing an event and executing when one comes in? That's the reality at Extend, the AI-native commerce platform unifying delivery, returns, exchanges, and warranty claims. In this episode of Life Is But A Stream, Jonathan Kropp joins Joseph Morais to share how Extend built a 100% serverless platform with Apache Kafka® on Confluent Cloud as its central nervous system. The results? ↪ An immutable, replayable event log tracking fraud signals ↪ Schema enforcement that stabilized services across the platform ↪ Technology spend traceable to every revenue-generating event This is what making great bets on your data foundation looks like.
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#IBMPartner I’ve lost count of how many AI pilots I’ve watched stall the same way. Then everyone is quick to blame the model while no one audits what actually happening underneath. That’s where Confluent, an IBM company comes in. It's a pattern we keep seeing: the pilot failed because the data feeding it is stale and unreliable, and the infrastructure moving that data was only held together by a handful of your most vital engineers. That infrastructure is usually Kafka. And "free" open-source Kafka has a real price tag: ✔️ Engineering time spent just keeping clusters alive ✔️ Cloud spend finance can't explain ✔️ Governance gaps you discover after the audit This is exactly the problem Confluent was built to solve. It was founded by the original creators of Kafka — and now it turns Kafka into one complete, fully managed, governed-by-default platform. In this video, I cover: ↳ Why data infrastructure stalls pilots in production ↳ What self-managed Kafka is actually costing you ↳ How Confluent automates the migration off it — offsets, ACLs, and consumer groups intact, with zero downtime If your AI roadmap is stuck behind infrastructure you have to babysit, Confluent is the upgrade path a CIO can actually stand behind. 🎁 30-day Confluent free trial + $400 in credits → https://bit.ly/4pUCCok
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Business leaders almost always know exactly what they want. It’s usually an increment on something they already offer. They’re really just talking about customers. Deliveries. Shipments. Payments. Accounts, Stores, Policies. The verbs and nouns of the business. The funny thing is, as far as the business side of the house is concerned, these asks are not complicated at all. And yet they end up being incredibly complicated to deliver, and to deliver well, because all of those nouns and verbs are locked in a multitude of systems. I’ve seen this play out at company after company. One global bank shared an architecture diagram with me for a single subsidiary. Just North America. For my own interest, I counted the boxes. Over 600. You can imagine why any project there was thought of in years, and hundreds of people. Anything new has to be wired to all of it. Here’s the mindset shift: the systems aren’t the key asset. The data is. And more than that, the ability to work with it. To update it. Evolve it. Improve it. To power business processes with it. That’s where new value gets created. That’s what competitive advantage actually is.
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Managing Flink SQL operations, monitoring, KRaft migrations, and data governance in separate workflows adds a lot of friction for platform teams. Confluent Platform 8.3 changes that. Built on Apache Kafka 4.3, this release brings these capabilities into Confluent Platform, so you can scale data in motion with complete control. Use an agent-ready MCP server for Apache Flink, build richer Flink SQL applications without leaving the SQL workflow, monitor KStreams applications and clients, and simplify KRaft migrations and governance across your estate. Learn more: https://cnfl.io/4ftGZ6d
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Last week, we teamed up with Judo Bank for a full-day, in-person Data Streaming Engineer Certification Day. Teams came together to collaborate, swap ideas, and see how real-time data will fuel Judo’s future. In just a few hours, attendees went from the fundamentals all the way to earning their official certifications. Thank you to everyone who joined us, and a special shoutout to Chris Thorburn, James Gollan, and Rohan Walia for leading an incredible workshop!
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🌟 Meet our Catalyst of the Week, Luke Chen! Luke has been an incredible contributor to the Apache Kafka® community, contributing code, participating in KIP discussions and code reviews, and helping others by answering community questions. Beyond his technical contributions, Luke regularly shares his knowledge with the community through conference talks, including at Current Bengaluru, and Apache Kafka blog posts. Thanks for everything you do for the community, Luke! Learn more about our Catalyst program: https://cnfl.io/3P50GGo
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Happening this Thursday! Learn how to build agents that sense anomalies, reason over live context, and act autonomously. 💙 MongoDB
If your agents work in the sandbox but fall apart in production, this one's for you. Join our webinar with MongoDB on July 23 to see how to move from static snapshots to autonomous action using a live fleet management build as the blueprint. Get a deployable reference architecture you can build from: https://mdb.link/partner
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🌟 Meet our Catalyst of the Week, Omnia Ibrahim! Omnia has been an active member of the community since 2021, contributing to Apache Kafka® through work on MirrorMaker and cross-cluster replication, Kafka clients, and a variety of code cleanups and migrations, helping improve the project. She became a committer in 2025. Beyond her technical contributions, Omnia has also been a valued member of the Program Committee for Kafka Summit and Current since 2023. Thanks for everything you do for the community, Omnia! Learn more about our Catalyst program: https://cnfl.io/3P50GGo
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