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Unlocking the Edge: Data Streaming Goes Where You Go with Confluent

While cloud computing adoption continues to accelerate due to its tremendous value, it has also become clear that edge computing is better suited for a variety of use cases. Organizations are realizing the benefits of processing data closer to its source, leading to reduced latency, security and compliance benefits, and more efficient bandwidth utilization as well as supporting scenarios where networking has challenging constraints.

How to Scale RAG and Build More Accurate LLMs

This article was originally published on The New Stack on June 10, 2024. Retrieval augmented generation (RAG) has emerged as a leading pattern to combat hallucinations and other inaccuracies that affect large language model content generation. However, RAG needs the right data architecture around it to scale effectively and efficiently.

Databricks: Achieve performance and reliability with purpose-built AI

88% of Databricks users surveyed are turning to AI to improve bug-fixing effectiveness (Databricks). Why? Troubleshooting modern data stacks is typically a toilsome and manual process. The good news – data teams that use DataOps practices and tools will be 10 times more productive (Gartner). With this in mind, Unravel is hosting this live event to demonstrate how AI-enabled observability for Databricks’ Data Intelligence Platform helps you proactively achieve performance and reliability.

Amber Electric Relies On The AI Data Cloud To Give Australians Greater Control Of Their Energy Usage

Amber Electric is on a mission to help shift Australia to 100% renewable energy. They are powered by a desire to show people that a win for the planet is a win for them too. The Snowflake AI Data Cloud has proven to be a hit at Amber Electric thanks to its easy-to-use interface, cost effectiveness, and scalability, helping the company streamline its customer invoicing and, as a result, customer experience.

Confluent Is Named Microsoft's 2024 OSS on Azure Global Partner of the Year

Confluent is thrilled to be named Microsoft’s 2024 OSS on Azure Global Partner of the Year. As a three-time Partner of the Year award winner, this recognition reflects our commitment to delivering outstanding open source-based applications and infrastructure solutions on Microsoft Azure.

Amazon OpenSearch Ingestion Adds Support for Confluent Cloud as Source

Until recently, customers didn't have an easy way to send data from Confluent’s data streaming platform to Amazon OpenSearch. They had to either write custom code using AWS Lambda as an intermediary, refactor the HTTP Sink connector, or self-manage an old Elasticsearch connector version. Earlier this year, we announced the fully managed OpenSearch Sink connector, providing a seamless way to sink data from Confluent to Amazon OpenSearch.