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From Pawns to Pipelines: Stream Processing Fundamentals Through Chess

Jul 2, 2025 By Vish Srinivasan In Confluent
We understand new concepts by linking them to familiar ones. These analogies aren’t just helpful; they’re how we think. For me, that something familiar is chess, and I’ll use it to explain some of the core ideas behind stream processing—a concept that requires a shift from seeing tables as static snapshots to treating tables as materialized projections of a continuous stream of changes.
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Confluent and Amazon EventBridge for Broad Event Distribution

Jul 1, 2025 By Braeden Quirante In Confluent
Confluent has established itself as a leader in event streaming, providing not only a robust platform but also a rich portfolio of pre-built connectors. These connectors act as bridges, effortlessly channeling data between a multitude of systems, from databases and applications to cloud services. This extensive portfolio empowers users to weave together their data landscapes with remarkable ease and flexibility.
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Developer Experience in the Age of AI: Developing a Copilot Chat Extension for Data Streaming Engineers

Jul 1, 2025 By Lucia Cerchie In Confluent
Three in 4 programmers have tried artificial intelligence (AI). This factoid comes from a recent Wired survey on the habits of engineers with respect to AI tooling like GitHub Copilot. Though Wired used a pool of only around 700 engineers, Gartner’s prediction from a year ago was that 75% of enterprise software engineers would use AI by 2028. To many of us, it’s starting to feel like that’s already happened.
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Streaming Data at Scale with Strategic Cloud Partners | Life Is But A Stream Podcast

Jun 26, 2025 By Confluent In Confluent
Strategic partnerships don’t work without trust. And in the data streaming world, trust begins with transparency. In this episode, Elena Cuevas, Sr. Manager of Cloud Partner Solutions Engineering at Confluent, joins Joseph Morais to unpack what it takes to collaborate with hyperscalers like AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. From managing competitive overlaps to future-proofing enterprise data architectures, Elena shares her battle-tested strategies for driving alignment across complex stakeholder ecosystems.
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New With Confluent Platform 8.0: Stream Securely, Monitor Easily, and Scale Endlessly

Jun 24, 2025 By Olivia Greene In Confluent
At Confluent, we’re committed to building the world's leading data streaming platform, which gives you the ability to stream, connect, process, and govern all of your data and make it available wherever it’s needed—however it’s needed—in real time. Today, we're excited to announce the release of Confluent Platform 8.0! This release builds on Apache Kafka 4.0, reinforcing our core capabilities as a data streaming platform.
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Moving Up the Curve: 5 Tips For Enabling Enterprise-Wide Data Streaming

Jun 18, 2025 By Lyndon Hedderly In Confluent
Confluent recently released its 2025 Data Streaming Report: Moving the Needle on AI Adoption, Speed to Market, and ROI. The report found that data streaming is delivering business value with 44% of IT leaders, driving up to 5x or more return on their data streaming investments. Explore the 2025 Data Streaming Report That said, as companies continue to expand their data streaming use cases, many struggle with nontechnical hurdles around scaling, setting up operations, and hitting organizational silos.
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