Introducing Real-Time Context Engine: Simplified Context Engineering With Real-Time, Processed Data for AI

We’re excited to announce our Real-Time Context Engine, now available in Early Access. It’s a key part of Confluent Intelligence, our vision to bring real-time data directly to production AI systems through the power of Apache Kafka and Apache Flink.

The Inevitable Outage: Why Your Hybrid Strategy Needs Multi-Cloud Resilience

The recent global IT outage experienced by a major cloud hyperscaler was a disruptive, real-world reminder that downtime and service disruptions are inevitable. The event impacted services across banking, retail, and healthcare, and served as a powerful warning that relying on any single provider, or even a single cloud region, creates a critical business vulnerability. This outage highlights the critical risk of a single-provider strategy, rather than an inherent problem with the cloud.

7 Finance Reporting Nightmares: Banish Your Fears

If financial reporting nightmares are keeping you up at night, you’re not alone. As the long hours exporting data, running reports, and fixing errors cast dark shadows over your days, take heart and get clear insights into your data with these tips. With tools and processes that save you time, you can mark yourself safe from these scary financial reporting situations.

Product Spotlight: Go Boundaryless

ThoughtSpot’s Boundaryless: Analytics-Everywhere event redefined what’s possible with data and AI. In this special Spotlight Series session, industry leaders and ThoughtSpot experts came together to unveil how analytics has broken free from traditional dashboards and now lives everywhere—embedded in the tools, workflows, and products people use every day.

Run Complex Calculations Instantly with Spotter

Run complex calculations with Spotter! Answers to real business questions aren’t always lying in your data table. It often requires understanding of how different metrics collectively form a key business insight. With Spotter you can just do that! Spotter generates complex formulas on the fly when you ask a complex question. This gives you real-time business insights on metrics that aren't even in your data model yet.

Qlik Live Stream - Filtering and Focusing Your Data

Join Mike Tarallo this Friday as he explores all the ways you can filter and focus your data in Qlik Analytics — from classic interactive filters and smart search to new 2025 features like chart-level filters! We’ll cover set analysis, drill-down hierarchies, alternate states for comparative analysis, bookmarks, button actions, and even variable-driven inputs. Whether you’re cleaning up your visuals or narrowing your insights to key business metrics, you’ll see just how powerful Qlik’s filtering capabilities can be.

Confluent and Your Data: A Partnership You Can Trust

At Confluent, we know that our platform must provide your business with resilience for your mission-critical applications, and we take that responsibility very seriously. Any unplanned outages can result in lost revenue, reputation damage, or fines. As incidents inevitably happen, your organization needs to know how to maximize your availability with our products.

Topic & data multi-Kafka governance with your AI-assistant

If you’ve been running Kafka for a while, with any luck you have quite a few engineering teams onboarded, potentially with hundreds or even thousands of applications. Hopefully the Lenses.io Developer Experience platform helped in this adoption. But finding the right balance between governance and openness can be tricky.