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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 Is Enhancing and Easing Migration to Fully Managed Connectors

Taking advantage of Confluent’s pre-built connectors means you’re able to build integration pipelines without having to write, test, and maintain integration code. And with our fully managed connectors on Confluent Cloud, you can connect to any source or sink system with zero ops or infrastructure management and with cost-efficiency. This year, we've been hard at work making the benefits of fully managed connectors a reality for more of our customers.

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.

Announcing the Confluent Cloud Fully Managed Sink Connector for ClickHouse

Data is in motion, and it’s moving faster than ever. For developers and data architects building modern real-time data platforms, the ability to get data from anywhere and analyze it instantly is a superpower. That’s why we’re excited to announce a major step forward in this journey: the fully managed sink connector for Clickhouse, now generally available on Confluent Cloud.

From Oracle to MongoDB: How to Modernize Your Tech Stack for Real-Time AI Decisioning

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Introducing Private Network Interface: Secure Private Networking on AWS for 50% Less

This is the second post in our series exploring the architectural innovations that make Confluent Cloud more cost-effective at scale. Building on our previous post about the operational complexities of Apache Kafka and our cloud-native architecture's solutions, we'll now dive into how we solved a core challenge for any data streaming workload: high cloud networking costs.

Confluent Announces $200M Investment Across Global Partner Ecosystem

Today, Confluent announced a $200 million commitment over the next three years designed to supercharge the growth and impact of its global partner ecosystem. This investment expands on Confluent’s partner-centric strategy; well over 20%* of the data streaming pioneer’s business in the past year has been partner-sourced, underscoring the ecosystem’s vital role in unlocking real-time use cases at scale.