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Enhancing Security with IAM Roles in Confluent Managed Connectors

Oct 8, 2024 By Braeden Quirante In Confluent
As cloud environments evolve, so must the security measures that protect them. With Confluent’s latest enhancement—AWS IAM role integration for managed connectors—you can now adopt temporary security credentials, reducing both the risk of long-term credential exposure and the operational burden of key management. This feature tightens security and simplifies access management for your data flows between AWS and Confluent Cloud.
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Shift Left: Bad Data in Event Streams, Part 1

Oct 4, 2024 By Adam Bellemare In Confluent
At a high level, bad data is data that doesn’t conform to what is expected. For example, an email address without the “@”, or a credit card expiry where the MM/YY format is swapped to YY/MM. “Bad” can also include malformed and corrupted data, such that it’s completely indecipherable and effectively garbage.
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How Booking.com Used Data Streaming to Put Travel Decisions into Customer's Hands

Oct 1, 2024 By Confluent In Confluent
Booking.com wanted to give people a “connected trip” experience, allowing customers to seamlessly book flights, accommodations, car rentals, and excursions in one visit. The company realized the value of data streaming early on in reaching this goal, but the operational effort had become overwhelming. Learn how Booking.com found the answer in Confluent’s data streaming platform. With its automated configuration that required no ongoing maintenance, the team was able to prioritize innovation with data and provide the comprehensive booking experience they had been searching for.
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Your Guide to the Apache Flink Table API: An In-Depth Exploration

Oct 1, 2024 By Martijn Visser In Confluent
Apache Flink offers a variety of APIs that provide users with significant flexibility in processing data streams. Among these, the Table API stands out as one of the most popular options. Its user-friendly design allows developers to express complex data processing logic in a clear and declarative manner, making it particularly appealing for those who want to efficiently manipulate data without getting bogged down in intricate implementation details.
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Expanding Confluent's Integration with Microsoft Azure: Create and Manage Confluent Resources Directly from the Azure Portal with Confluent's Fully Managed Connectors (Preview)

Sep 27, 2024 By Ankita Yadav In Confluent
We are thrilled to announce yet another milestone in our integration capabilities with Microsoft Azure. Now, you can manage Confluent resources (Preview) directly from the Azure portal. This new capability not only simplifies the setup and management process but also empowers you to leverage the full potential of Confluent's data streaming platform on Azure.
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Atomic Tessellator: Revolutionizing Computational Chemistry with Data Streaming

Sep 26, 2024 By Will Stolton In Confluent
Computational chemistry relies on large volumes of complex data in order to provide insights into new applications, whether it’s for electric vehicles or new battery development. With the emergence of generative AI (GenAI), the rapid, scalable processing of this data has become possible and critical to investigate previously unexplored areas in catalysis and materials science.
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How to source data from AWS DynamoDB to Confluent using the Open-Source Connector

Sep 26, 2024 By Confluent In Confluent
This is a one-minute video showing an animated architectural diagram of an integration between Amazon DynamoDB and Confluent Cloud using an open-source Kafka connector. The integration allows you to avoid maintaining custom code, and gives you the ability to automatically discover and adapt to changes in DynamoDB tables. All details are provided.
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