Turning data into revenue sounds simple… until you try to process massive volumes of events continuously and keep financial-grade consistency. This new guide walks through how to design a low-latency monetization engine using Kafka and Flink. Check it out now ➡️

The future of online shopping won’t happen primarily on websites. It’ll happen through personal, agentic AI shopping assistants that can browse, compare, and recommend products to shoppers. 🛍️ So, what does that mean for retail websites? In his new article in @MyTotalRetail,

.@gAmUssA is going live at 12:00 PM ET/9:00 AM ET for the final Streaming Frontiers of 2025! We’re closing out the year with a captain’s log on the data streaming dev experience + what’s ahead in 2026: • VS Code + Flink updates • Kafka plugin for IntelliJ • MCP + AI +

Real-time data isn’t a nice-to-have, it’s the foundation for AI, operations, and decision-making. That theme echoed across every conversation on Life Is But A Stream this year. We spoke with incredible technology leaders from startups to enterprises running mission-critical,

🏆 Exciting news: Confluent Cloud won an @InfoWorld Technology of the Year Award in the Data Management: Streaming category! ​This win wouldn’t have been possible without our incredible team. Thank you and congratulations on this achievement! 💙 Learn more about the award and

Learn how Tableflow converts data to Apache Iceberg or Delta Lake format, and how it can be integrated with Amazon Redshift to query and analyze customer activity snapshots! ⤵️ Dive into our full CDC demo here: https://t.co/x2u01Rh44z

ICYMI: Confluent’s 2026 tech predictions have arrived! Industry experts are weighing in on the key trends shaping how AI, regulations, and digital resilience strategies will evolve in the new year. See what steps your org can take now to stay ahead of the curve 👉

Confluent’s “strategy is to set the standard for what an enterprise-grade streaming data platform should be.” - Forrester ICYMI: We’ve been named a Leader in The @Forrester Wave™: Streaming Data Platforms, Q4 2025. Get the full story in our blog -> https://t.co/IsP6L1q6TB

The infrastructure that powered the last decade of digital businesses wasn't designed for the relentless, context-hungry demands of AI agents.​ 2026 will separate companies that treat AI as a side project from those that rebuild their data architectures to support it. @WLaForest

Building agentic AI doesn't have to mean writing bespoke code to pull data into AI agents and manually integrating external tools @AnthropicAI's Model Context Protocol and our Data Streaming Platform are here to help. Learn how you can say goodbye to fragile, hard-to-scale

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Context engineering is now a core part of building AI apps. With Confluent Intelligence, you get a unified way to stream, process, and serve real-time context directly into @Snowflake Intelligence and Cortex agents. Check it out now -> https://t.co/oT7SAkl3Lv

🖊️ @SandonJacobs is back at the lightboard to introduce KIP-932 - “Queues for Kafka,” unpacking how this new cooperative consumption model enables consumer scaling beyond traditional partition limits via message-level acknowledgement. 👉 https://t.co/lA28Qr3Nvp

How do you guarantee a 40-million-person grocery delivery in minutes? Turkish ultra-fast grocery delivery service @getir sees a 70% reduction in database costs by implementing Confluent Cloud as a centralized data streaming platform. Read the full story here to see how they can

What is @confluentinc’s specialty? CEO @jaykreps explains: "The service we offer is all about the real time flow of data between the parts of the company..." "... being able to build applications, AI agents that can react to that and use that data, that's what the software is

Check out how Debezium captures real-time data changes from a Postgres database! Learn how inserts, updates, & deletes work and how they’re streamed instantly to ensure auditability, reproducibility, & replayability of the data. Want to learn more? Find our full CDC demo here:

Tim Berglund is back at the lightboard to break down Apache Flink®. He explains what it is, how to deploy it, and why it pairs so well with Apache Kafka®. He also breaks down why Flink has become the de facto standard for real‑time processing and data pipelines, and where it fits

Want to simplify your dev cycle and speed up streaming app development? Join our virtual workshop on December 10th, to learn how to manage Apache Kafka streams and Apache Flink queries directly from VS Code using our latest integrations. Space is limited, sign up today! 👉

We are excited that Confluent has entered a definitive agreement to be acquired by @IBM! Learn more here: https://t.co/KUYlXXXY9k