Analytics

Build, Connect, and Consume Intelligent Data Pipelines Seamlessly and Securely

We’re excited to share the latest and greatest features on Confluent Cloud, in our first launch of 2024. This Cloud Launch comes to you from Kafka Summit London, where we talked about the latest updates highlighted in our launch, including serverless Apache Flink®, some exciting pricing changes, updates to connectors, and more! We also shared our vision for a future offering, Tableflow.

Confluent Cloud for Apache Flink Is Now Generally Available

Last year, we announced our plan to build a cloud-native Apache Flink® service to meet the growing demand for scalable and efficient stream processing solutions in the cloud. Today, we're thrilled to announce the general availability of Confluent Cloud for Apache Flink across all three major clouds. This means that you can now experience Apache Kafka® and Flink as a unified, enterprise-grade platform to connect and process your data in real time, wherever you need it.

Introducing Tableflow

We’re excited to talk about our vision for Tableflow, which makes it push-button simple to take Apache Kafka® data and feed it directly into your data lake, warehouse, or analytics engine as Apache Iceberg® tables. Making operational data accessible to the analytical world is traditionally a complex, expensive, and brittle process and we believe we can do better to unify the operational and analytical estates.

From Theory to Practice: Real-World Applications of Cloud Platform Integration

Many companies talk about cloud integration in a theoretical way. But cloud technologies aren’t theoretical. They’re a rapidly growing segment of technology that’s changing the way businesses operate. In the following article, we move from theory to practice so you can have a more realistic vision of what to expect when you move more of your on-site tech to the cloud.

Open Source Fractional GPUs for Everyone, Now Available from ClearML

If you’ve been following our news, you know we just announced free fractional GPU capabilities for open source users, enabling multi-tenancy for NVIDIA GPUs and allowing users to optimize their GPU utilization to support multiple AI workloads as part of our open source and free tier offering.

Streams Forever: Kafka Summit London 2024 Keynote | Jay Kreps, Co-founder & CEO, Confluent

Join the Confluent leadership team as they share their vision of streaming data products enabled by a data streaming platform built around Apache Kafka. Jay Kreps, Co-creator of Apache Kafka and CEO of Confluent, will present his vision of unifying the operational and analytical worlds with data streams and showcase exciting new product capabilities. During this keynote, the winner and finalists of the $1M Data Streaming Startup Challenge will showcase how their use of data streaming is disrupting their categories.

How to Add a 'Back to Top' Button to Your Yellowfin Dashboard

Welcome back to Yellowfin Japan’s ‘How to?’ blog series! In our previous blog, we went through how to create big number and vertical column charts in Yellowfin, and the many different charting options available in Yellowfin Canvas. Before we re-visit our regular series, we want to share a shorter dashboard walkthrough.