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Ep 5 - The Secret to Data Streaming Success: Speaking the Same Language

Want your real-time data streaming initiative to stick? Success hinges on more than pipelines—it’s about people, governance, and business impacts. Jeffrey Johnathon Jennings (J3), managing principal at signalRoom, shares how to bring it all together. In this episode, J3 shares how he’s used impactful proofs of concepts to demonstrate value early, then scaled effectively through shift left with governance and stronger cross-team collaboration.

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.

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.