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New in Confluent Cloud and WarpStream: Evolving the Data Streaming Platform for AI, Scale, and Control

In the last few months, Confluent has released over 70 new features to our data streaming platform, ranging from new connectors to better networking connectivity to entirely new ways to build streaming applications. We are not slowing down. Confluent’s DSP can do more, across every pillar, in ways that are more powerful, more complete, and more connected than ever before.

New in Confluent Intelligence and AI Tools: Making Agents Native to the Stream, Expanded Model Support, New Agent Skills, and Copilot

A customer writes in asking where their order is. The AI support agent checks the account, sees the order marked shipped, and sends a reply. The order was cancelled forty minutes ago. The agent wasn't wrong about anything it could see. It was reasoning over stale data that refreshes every six hours. This is why AI projects stall. Not because the models aren't capable, but because they lack AI-ready data and a reliable view of the current state of the business.

Confluent Cloud for Apache Flink: Engine for Mission-Critical, Real-Time Operational Systems and dbt/SQL-Native Home for Data Science and AI

Organizations today are under immense pressure to deliver on two critical fronts: building mission-critical, real-time operational systems and powering the next generation data science and artificial intelligence (AI) workflows with analytics-ready data. Historically, achieving both meant navigating a divided, complex architecture.

5 Ways Automation Is Improving Food Manufacturing Quality and Safety

Food manufacturers have always operated under intense pressure to deliver products that are both consistent and safe. A single contamination event or a batch of mislabeled allergens can trigger recalls, damage brand trust, and put consumers at risk. As production volumes grow and supply chains stretch across borders, manual inspection processes are struggling to keep pace. That's where automation is stepping in, transforming how food is monitored, tested, and cleared for shelves. Continue reading to learn more about how automation improves food manufacturing.

Chaos Monkey Won't Find Your Bug

We shipped a chaos feature that never caused any chaos. Our mock server has had a fault-injection effect for years with a straightforward job: withhold the response entirely and see whether the caller copes. Last week I audited it against the actual code path. It had never withheld anything. The handler returned early without writing a response. Go’s net/http then did what it is designed to do, which is synthesize a 200 OK and flush the recorded body.

Top Challenges of Interoperability in Healthcare and How AI Is Helping Solve Them

Healthcare interoperability enables clinical and administrative systems to exchange usable patient information. However, connectivity alone does not ensure accurate interpretation or workflow compatibility. Many of the challenges with interoperability in healthcare have less to do with moving data and more to do with whether the receiving system understands what that data means. FHIR standardizes healthcare data exchange through structured resources and implementation frameworks.

SmartBear MCP for Zephyr: Connect your testing system of record to your AI tools

Your SmartBear Zephyr test data holds the answers you need before you ship: what’s covered, what passed, where the risk sits. That data has always lived one context switch away, behind the Jira UI. The SmartBear MCP Server changes that. It brings your Zephyr test data into any MCP-compatible AI client, so quality keeps pace with how fast your team builds. This guide covers where testing sits in the AI age, what MCP is, and how it unifies data visibility within your Zephyr workflow.

Multiplayer is joining FilingRamp

Four years ago, we started Multiplayer with an ambitious goal: to help teams work better on distributed systems. Since then we've grown to thousands of users, and we reached a milestone I'm especially proud of: open-sourcing our AI debugging agent to put it in the hands of every developer who's ever wrestled with a gnarly bug or waded through PR slop from AI tools. Today I'm excited to share the next chapter: Multiplayer is joining FilingRamp.