Start Small, Stay Agile: Building a Data-Driven Culture
To build a truly data-driven culture, Chris Kapp of Henry Schein One explains that starting small, remaining agile, and reducing biases are essential for success.
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Modern Software Development For Today's Systems & Applications
Free Kafka tooling: 6 annoying tasks to offload
You didn’t become a developer to spend hours hunting down missing messages, or debugging consumer issues. Yet here we are. Valuable dev time evaporates as you wrestle with Apache Kafka, or wait for a central team to unblock you, when you should be finding, prepping, and shipping streaming data in minutes. Lenses Community Edition tackles these everyday frustrations.
New Confluent Cloud for Apache Flink® capabilities simplify real-time AI development
Flink Native Inference seamlessly runs AI models directly in Confluent Cloud for streamlined development.
Confluent announces the General Availability of Tableflow
Tableflow brings real-time business context to analytical systems to make AI and next-generation applications enterprise-ready.
The Confluent Q1 '25 Launch
The Confluent Q1 ’25 Launch includes Freight clusters and Tableflow, the features needed to make streaming data cheaper and feeding your data lake easier. We’re also introducing AI tools for Apache Flink, VS Code Extension, a new premium Oracle CDC Connector, and more! Our quarterly launches provide a single resource to learn about the accelerating number of new features we’re bringing to Confluent Cloud, our cloud-native data streaming platform.
Tableflow: Represent Kafka topics as Apache Iceberg or Delta Lake tables in a few clicks
Tableflow represents Kafka topics and associate schemas as open-table formats such as Apache Iceberg(Generally Available) or Delta Lake (Early Access) in a few clicks to feed any data lake, warehouse, or analytics engine. It removes the need for complex, costly and error-prone data pipelines that are currently being used to feed streaming data to data lakes while delivering strong read performance and automated data maintenance. Customers can also bring their own storage ensuring flexibility, cost savings, and security.
Introducing Apache Kafka 4.0
We are proud to announce the release of Apache Kafka 4.0. This release contains many new features and improvements. This blog post will highlight some of the more prominent ones. For a full list of changes, be sure to check the release notes.
How to Secure HIPPA-Sensitive Data with Smart Architecture
Chris Kapp of Henry Schein One shares how his team is securing HIPAA data through a smart naming strategy, internal governance, and tight control over tagging and access.
Ep 4 - From Legacy to Cutting-Edge: Henry Schein One's Data Streaming Vision
Despite its value, legacy data can feel like a roadblock in a fast-paced digital world—Henry Schein One is clearing the path forward with real-time data streaming. In this episode, Chris Kapp, Software Architect at Henry Schein One (HS1), shares how his team modernizes data management to stay competitive and unlock real-time insights. You’ll learn about: Get ready to future-proof your data strategy with this must-listen episode for technology leaders facing scalability, governance, or integration challenges.
The Business Value of the DSP: Part 1 - From Apache Kafka to a DSP
In our 2024 Data Streaming Report, we surveyed 4,110 IT leaders about the pivotal role that data streaming plays in their businesses. Of the respondents, 91% indicated that data streaming platforms (DSPs) are critical or important for achieving their data-related objectives—a result that comes as no surprise. Most IT teams—from architecture and integration teams to application and data engineers—that are using Confluent’s DSP get it.