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Building the Agentic Enterprise: How AWS and Confluent Power Real-Time AI | Life Is But A Stream

Apr 28, 2026 By Confluent In Confluent
Varun Jasti of AWS explains why real-time data—not better models—is the true unlock for enterprise AI. Most enterprises don't need to build AI models from scratch—they need to put AI to work. That requires a data foundation that is real-time, reliable, and ready to serve intelligent systems at scale.
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Dynamic Kafka ACLs: Implementing Identity-Aware Policies with Kong Event Gateway

Apr 27, 2026 By Hugo Guerrero In Kong
Modern Kafka deployments struggle with a familiar tension. You want fine-grained access control per client, per team, and even per request. However, traditional ACLs force you into static, cluster-level configurations that are brittle, hard to scale, and painful to maintain. Administrators are often forced to manage massive, hardcoded lists of topics and users. But what if you could dynamically craft these ACLs using identity context?
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Don't trust AI agents on Kafka. Unless you have OAuth 2.1. (Live)

Apr 16, 2026 By LensesIO In Lenses
Every engineering team is onboarding AI agents. Most are doing it without a governance model - static API keys, no audit trail, no way to revoke access if something goes wrong. Join us on April 15th as we go live on the topic everyone is talking about but few are solving: how to govern AI agent access to streaming data.
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How to give AI Agents secure access to systems (with remote MCP servers)

Apr 14, 2026 By LensesIO In Lenses
AI agents need access to your systems. But are you sure they're accessing them securely? In this video, Tun @DataSurfer breaks down the way most teams give AI agents access today: static API keys, shared credentials, no audit trail. It's a disaster waiting to happen, but what exactly can teams do about it?
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How Focal Systems Closed the Inventory Gap with Data Streaming | Life Is But A Stream

Apr 14, 2026 By Confluent In Confluent
The average grocery store has 65 to 80% inventory accuracy. One in 10 products is out of stock at any moment. For an industry operating on razor-thin margins and competing against digital-native challengers, that data gap is existential. In this episode, Kevin Johnson, CEO of Focal Systems, sits down with Joseph to explore how his team is using computer vision, data streaming, and stateful stream processing to close that gap at scale.
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How SecurityScorecard Put Confluent at the Center of Everything | Life Is But A Stream

Mar 31, 2026 By Confluent In Confluent
What happens when a security intelligence company decides that data contracts aren't optional, they're the foundation? For SecurityScorecard, that decision changed everything: how teams share data, how pipelines are built, and how quickly a new engineer can ship production-grade work on day one.
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