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Ep 9 - Bottlenecks to Breakthroughs: How Covetrus Solved Latency with Streaming

For enterprises managing sprawling systems and frequent M&A activity, data latency isn’t just inconvenient—it’s a blocker to business value. In this episode, Joe Pardi, Senior Director of Global Data Engineering at Covetrus, explains how his team replaced fragile data pipelines with a robust real-time data streaming architecture that enables instant decisions across the entire enterprise.

Confluent unites batch and stream processing for faster, smarter agentic AI and analytics

On Confluent Cloud for Apache Flink®, snapshot queries combine batch and stream processing to enable AI apps and agents to act on past and present data. New private networking and security features make stream processing more secure and enterprise-ready.

Confluent Current 2025 highlights

Current 2025 featured two days of engineers figuring out how streaming tech needs to evolve in an AI-driven world. Gone are the days when talks focused on basic Kafka setup. This year, everyone was tackling complex integrations, developer happiness, and practical AI implementation. Still, the event drew a range of people, with plenty of new faces stopping by the Lenses.io booth – clear evidence that Kafka and data streaming continue to attract newcomers.

Confluent Releases Managed V2 Connector for Apache Kafka for Azure Cosmos DB

We’re excited to announce the General Availability (GA) of the Confluent fully managed V2 connector for Apache Kafka for Azure Cosmos DB! This release marks a major milestone in our mission to simplify real-time data streaming from and to Azure Cosmos DB using Apache Kafka. The V2 connector is now production-ready and available directly from the Confluent Cloud connector catalog.

The Confluent Q2 '25 Launch

The Confluent Q2 ’25 Launch brings together the best of batch and stream processing. We’re introducing Flink snapshot queries (Early Access), Tableflow support for Delta Lake tables (Open Preview), and more! Our quarterly launches provide a single resource to learn about the new features we’re bringing to Confluent Cloud, our cloud-native data streaming platform.