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.

A Starter Guide to Cloud ETL Tools

In today's world of Internet Technology and the need for instant access to a wide range of information, companies are constantly receiving unprecedented amounts of data from various sources and in different formats. Sorting through this mass of data to find patterns and actionable insights is nearly impossible. This is where the process of Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) and, more specifically, cloud-based ETL platforms designed for low-code data integration, becomes invaluable.

Iceberg 101: Better Data Lakes with Apache Iceberg

With growing data volumes, organizations are forced to rethink how they store and manage data. Traditional data warehouses, while powerful, became expensive and rigid when faced with the volume, variety, and velocity of modern data - leading to the rise of data lakes as a promising alternative. However, organizations soon found that data lake in themselves were not a panacea, and often provided limited utility due to their unstructured nature.

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.

Marketing is hard. It's ok to take a break. #marketinglife

Kyle Lacy, CMO at ​@DoceboLMS ⁩, gets real: Marketing isn’t just ads and campaigns. It’s constant context switching, decision fatigue, and pressure from all sides. And that’s why burnout is real. Raise your hand. Take a break. We’re in this together. Databox is Modern BI for teams that need answers now. It offers the best of BI, without the complicated setup, steep price, or long learning curve.

Tariff Pain from a Data Point of View

If you’re in procurement, finance, or operations at a mid-sized ecommerce or retail company, tariffs aren’t just a political talking point - they’re a silent force eating into your profitability. And the real problem isn’t always the tariffs themselves. It’s the lag between policy changes and when your data catches up. If any of it sounds familiar, we’d love to hear your point of view in the short survey below.

Top 5 Digital Analytics Platforms that Offer Customer Engagement Features

Knowing how customers behave is the unrefined oil of the data world, so having a tool that lets you understand and process it into measurable, actionable data can help keep the customers you have just as much as finding new ones. But how do you use customer engagement to maximize your product's value? There are three key steps: These key steps and more all come together to turn engagement metrics into an actionable source of data. Learn more about it here.

How to Track Booked Meetings by Source in HubSpot (Using Custom Objects)

Running paid campaigns but not sure which ones drive actual sales meetings? You need to track "New Booked Meetings (NMB)" by source. In this short, Devin Littlefield from @marketvantage breaks it down. See how to tie marketing performance to real sales activity Understand how to use custom CRM objects in reporting Get better visibility into what’s driving revenue — Databox is Modern BI for teams that need answers now. It offers the best of BI, without the complicated setup, steep price, or long learning curve.