Confluent Cloud for Apache Flink: Engine for Mission-Critical, Real-Time Operational Systems and dbt/SQL-Native Home for Data Science and AI

Organizations today are under immense pressure to deliver on two critical fronts: building mission-critical, real-time operational systems and powering the next generation data science and artificial intelligence (AI) workflows with analytics-ready data. Historically, achieving both meant navigating a divided, complex architecture.

New in Confluent Intelligence and AI Tools: Making Agents Native to the Stream, Expanded Model Support, New Agent Skills, and Copilot

A customer writes in asking where their order is. The AI support agent checks the account, sees the order marked shipped, and sends a reply. The order was cancelled forty minutes ago. The agent wasn't wrong about anything it could see. It was reasoning over stale data that refreshes every six hours. This is why AI projects stall. Not because the models aren't capable, but because they lack AI-ready data and a reliable view of the current state of the business.

New in Confluent Cloud and WarpStream: Evolving the Data Streaming Platform for AI, Scale, and Control

In the last few months, Confluent has released over 70 new features to our data streaming platform, ranging from new connectors to better networking connectivity to entirely new ways to build streaming applications. We are not slowing down. Confluent’s DSP can do more, across every pillar, in ways that are more powerful, more complete, and more connected than ever before.

Snowflake RBAC: How to Manage Who Accesses What in Your Pipelines

Your data engineer just accidentally deleted the production customer table. Again. This scenario plays out in organizations worldwide, not because of malicious intent, but because of poorly configured access controls. With data breaches and compliance violations, managing who can access what in your Snowflake data warehouse isn't optional: it's essential.

Demo: Real-time anomaly detection and forecasting, Real-Time Context Engine for AI agents, and more

What's new in Q3'26: Real-time anomaly detection and forecasting with IBM Granite Time Series models and Google TimesFM model, upserts for Real-Time Context Engine to maintain fresh context for AI, and lightning queries to instantly serve the current state of the business for operational apps, analytics, and more.

Demo: Real-Time Forecasting with IBM Granite Time Series Models, Apache Flink, and Apache Kafka

Perform robust real-time forecasting on your Kafka data streams using IBM Granite Time Series models TTM, FlowState, PatchTST-FM right in Flink. Get started easily with zero-config, model flexibility, and lower cost in fully managed Confluent Cloud.

Demo: Flink Table API, User-Defined Functions (UDFs), Process Table Functions (PTFs)

Fully managed Confluent Cloud for Apache Flink combines Flink SQL for data engineers with programmatic capabilities like the Table API, User-Defined Functions (UDFs), and Process Table Functions (PTFs) for developers. You can build mission-critical use cases with programmatic capabilities while using familiar dbt- and SQL-based workflows.

Fivetran vs Talend: Detailed Comparison (2026)

Fivetran vs Talend in 2026: Which ETL Tool Is Better? Fivetran and Talend follow different approaches to data integration. Fivetran focuses on managed, warehouse-first ELT with automatic connector maintenance and schema handling. Talend supports ETL, ELT, data quality, governance, APIs and hybrid deployment across cloud and on-premises environments.