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

Aug 18, 2026 By Yashwanth Dasari In Confluent
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.
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New in Confluent Intelligence and AI Tools: Making Agents Native to the Stream, Expanded Model Support, New Agent Skills, and Copilot

Aug 18, 2026 By Confluent Staff In Confluent
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.
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New in Confluent Cloud and WarpStream: Evolving the Data Streaming Platform for AI, Scale, and Control

Aug 18, 2026 By Mike Agnich In Confluent
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.
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Announcing Confluent Platform 8.3: Powerful Apache Flink SQL operations, Easier KRaft Migrations, Expanded Monitoring and more.

Jul 29, 2026 By Julian Payne In Confluent
Platform teams want to maximize the value of data in motion, but separate workstreams for stream processing, monitoring, KRaft migrations, and data governance create friction as environments grow. As a result, teams spend more time managing operational overhead and less time building. Today, we’re excited to announce Confluent Platform (CP) 8.3.0, built on Apache Kafka 4.3.0, reinforcing our core capabilities as a data streaming platform.
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Redpanda vs Kafka vs Confluent: An Honest Comparison

Jul 10, 2026 By Bijoy Choudhury In Confluent
Data streaming has moved from a niche pattern used by a handful of internet-scale companies to the default backbone for event-driven architectures, real-time analytics, and now AI pipelines. What started as log aggregation at LinkedIn has become the plumbing for fraud detection, IoT telemetry, microservices communication, and retrieval-augmented generation. Three names dominate that conversation today.
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Tableflow: Turn Kafka Topics into Iceberg Tables

Jul 10, 2026 By Mohtasham Sayeed Mohiuddin In Confluent
TL;DR: Tableflow is a Confluent Cloud feature that materializes Apache Kafka topics as Apache Iceberg or Delta Lake tables, eliminating custom data pipelines by automatically handling schematization, type conversions, schema evolution, CDC stream materialization, catalog publishing, and table maintenance.
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Thousands of Migrations, Zero Data Loss: OCBC's Confluent Playbook | Life Is But A Stream

Jul 9, 2026 By Confluent In Confluent
Migrating an entire bank's infrastructure without losing a single transaction sounds impossible. Yet, OCBC successfully modernized their event-driven architecture across Singapore, Malaysia, and Hong Kong with zero data loss. In this episode, George Goh (Executive Director at OCBC) joins Joseph Morais and Sami Amed (Staff Solutions Engineer at Confluent) to pull back the curtain on a massive data streaming migration, how the team executed a flawless migration of thousands of producers and consumers in a single weekend.
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