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Data infrastructure growth has a direct, measurable relationship with energy consumption. As organizations ingest more events, retain more data, and deploy more always-on services, infrastructure energy use increases—often faster than business value. For streaming systems, this effect can be amplified by long-running clusters, peak-based sizing, and duplicated pipelines. Sustainability in this context is not about environmental reporting or corporate commitments.

Slack will be the Waterloo of closed data.

When your sales team is closing a deal, your operations manager is optimizing warehouse inventory, or your customer service rep is resolving a complaint, they can't afford to wait for the monthly analytics report. They need answers right now, in the tools they're already using, without jumping through hoops or waiting for the data team to get back to them with updates.

Here’s a question worth taking seriously if you are a BI practitioner: if I can describe what I want to an LLM and have a working dashboard in under a minute, what exactly am I paying for with a purpose-built analytics platform like Yellowfin? It is a fair challenge.

At Confluent, our mission is to provide the world’s most secure and scalable data streaming platform. So we’re aware and planning for a future where the threat of a large-scale, cryptographically relevant quantum computer is able to break the public key cryptographic algorithms in use today. In fact, the Quantum-Safe Working Group of the Cloud Security Alliance set April 14, 2030, as the deadline by which companies should have their post-quantum infrastructure in place.

In the fast-paced world of digital analytics, understanding your users isn't just about collecting data. It's about making sense of it in ways that drive real business decisions. Enter cohorts, a powerful tool that helps you segment users based on shared behaviors and characteristics. Whether you're a marketer trying to boost retention, a product manager analyzing user engagement, or a business owner seeking deeper insights, cohorts can transform how you view your audience.