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How the Singapore Government is Building Agility to Enhance Citizen Services with IMDA's Tech Acceleration Lab and the Government Commercial Cloud+

Mar 28, 2025 By Suvig Sharma In Confluent
Supply chain disruption. Pandemics and medical crises. Climate change. Events that were once “black swans” are now near-everyday occurrences for citizens worldwide—and governments are facing growing pressure to provide effective public services in response. In the past, the ability to access, process, and apply data to make informed decisions about complex issues was crucial to creating effective public services.
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Optimizing Serverless Stream Processing with Confluent Freight Clusters and AWS Lambda

Mar 27, 2025 By Mithun Mallick In Confluent
Confluent has been instrumental in enabling customers from various industries to develop real-time stream processing solutions using Apache Kafka. While many of these use cases demand low-latency and real-time processing, stream processing is also increasingly being utilized for ingesting logging and telemetry data. This type of data typically features a high ingest rate, but allows for a higher tolerance for end-to-end processing time.
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Powering AI Agents with Real-Time Data Using Anthropic's MCP and Confluent

Mar 25, 2025 By Edward Vaisman In Confluent
Model Context Protocol (MCP), introduced by Anthropic, is a new standard that simplifies artificial intelligence (AI) integrations by providing a secure, consistent way to connect AI agents with external tools and data sources. When we saw MCP’s potential, we immediately started exploring how we could bring real-time data streaming into the mix. With our long history of supporting open source and open standards, building an MCP server was a natural fit.
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New with Confluent Platform 7.9: Oracle XStream CDC Connector, Client-Side Field Level Encryption (EA), Confluent for VS Code, and More

Mar 19, 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 7.9! This release builds upon Apache Kafka 3.9, reinforcing our core capabilities as a data streaming platform.
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New in Confluent Cloud: Tableflow, Freight Clusters, Apache Flink AI Enhancements, and More

Mar 19, 2025 By Yashwanth Dasari In Confluent
Our Q1 Confluent Cloud launch comes to you from Current Bengaluru, where data streaming industry experts have gathered to showcase how real-time streaming with Apache Kafka, Apache Flink, and Apache Iceberg is enabling generative artificial intelligence (AI) use cases and helping their organizations take innovation to the next level.
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The Confluent Q1 '25 Launch

Mar 19, 2025 By Confluent In Confluent
The Confluent Q1 ’25 Launch includes Freight clusters and Tableflow, the features needed to make streaming data cheaper and feeding your data lake easier. We’re also introducing AI tools for Apache Flink, VS Code Extension, a new premium Oracle CDC Connector, and more! Our quarterly launches provide a single resource to learn about the accelerating number of new features we’re bringing to Confluent Cloud, our cloud-native data streaming platform.
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Tableflow: Represent Kafka topics as Apache Iceberg or Delta Lake tables in a few clicks

Mar 19, 2025 By Confluent In Confluent
Tableflow represents Kafka topics and associate schemas as open-table formats such as Apache Iceberg(Generally Available) or Delta Lake (Early Access) in a few clicks to feed any data lake, warehouse, or analytics engine. It removes the need for complex, costly and error-prone data pipelines that are currently being used to feed streaming data to data lakes while delivering strong read performance and automated data maintenance. Customers can also bring their own storage ensuring flexibility, cost savings, and security.
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