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How to migrate AWS MSK to Express Brokers with Lenses K2K Replicator

AWS MSK has become popular because it deploys Kafka easily and bills alongside other AWS services. Over the past few years, AWS announced Express Brokers, a new cluster type that offers unlimited storage and separates brokers from storage resources. This simplifies scaling and reduces the time needed to rebalance topics when adding or removing brokers.

How to Protect PII in Apache Kafka With Schema Registry and Data Contracts

A data contract is a formal agreement between an upstream component and a downstream component on the structure and semantics of data that’s in motion. In a previous post, I showed how Confluent Schema Registry supports data contracts. By combining data contracts and encryption on streaming workloads, you can shift left the responsibility of data consistency, quality, and security to the producer, allowing the consumer to depend on a trustworthy stream of data.

Demo: Streaming Agents automate competitive pricing in real time

Streaming Agents enable you to build, deploy, and orchestrate event-driven agents natively on Apache Flink and Apache Kafka. By unifying stream processing and agentic AI workflows, they leverage fresh context to continuously monitor and act on what’s happening in the business. In this demo, Brenner Heintz, Staff Technical Marketing Manager at Confluent, shows how to build agents that automate real-time competitive price matching on sales orders.

Real-Time AI Agents Powered by Apache Kafka, Apache Flink, and Google Cloud

Discover how developers and data teams can build agentic AI applications with the combined power of Google Cloud AI services and Confluent Cloud’s real-time data streaming platform. This video showcases the joint value of integrating Apache Kafka, Confluent Schema Registry, Kafka Connect, and Apache Flink to enable seamless, real-time communication between AI agents. What you’ll learn: With Confluent and Google Cloud, you can go beyond AI experiments to build scalable, enterprise-ready multi-agent systems powered by real-time data.

How Confluent Helps Software Providers Build Real-Time Products and SaaS Faster

Bringing real-time capabilities to your product or software-as-a-service (SaaS) is no longer a nice-to-have; it’s a competitive necessity. Whether you're building a real-time payment platform, a patient monitoring system, or any product where instant data processing fuels great user experiences and artificial intelligence (AI)-driven innovation, Apache Kafka data streaming is likely at the core.