The Q2 2024 Confluent Cloud launch introduces a suite of enhancements across the four key pillars of a Data Streaming Platform - Stream, Connect, Process, and Govern – alongside some significant work we have been doing with our partner ecosystem to help customers unlock new possibilities. Confluent has helped over 4,900+ global enterprises start their data streaming journey and was recently named a Leader by Forrester Research in The Forrester Wave: Streaming Data Platforms, Q4 2023.

A well-known debate: tabs or spaces? Sure, we could set up a Google Form to collect this data, but where’s the fun in that? Let’s settle the debate, Kafka-style. We’ll use the new confluent-kafka-javascript client (not in general availability yet) to build an app that produces the current state of the vote counts to a Kafka topic and consumes from that same topic to surface them to a JavaScript frontend.

The Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) came into effect in January 2018, aiming to improve the competitiveness and transparency of European financial markets. As part of this, financial institutions are obligated to report details of trades and transactions (both equity and non-equity) to regulators within certain time limits.

This article was originally published on The New Stack on June 10, 2024. Retrieval augmented generation (RAG) has emerged as a leading pattern to combat hallucinations and other inaccuracies that affect large language model content generation. However, RAG needs the right data architecture around it to scale effectively and efficiently.

While cloud computing adoption continues to accelerate due to its tremendous value, it has also become clear that edge computing is better suited for a variety of use cases. Organizations are realizing the benefits of processing data closer to its source, leading to reduced latency, security and compliance benefits, and more efficient bandwidth utilization as well as supporting scenarios where networking has challenging constraints.

Modern edge computing is transforming industries including manufacturing, healthcare, transportation, defense, retail, energy, and much more—pushing data management to far-reaching data sources to enable connected, low latency operations and enhanced decision making. These new use cases shift workloads to the left—requiring real-time data streaming and processing at the edge, right where the data is generated.

Until recently, customers didn't have an easy way to send data from Confluent’s data streaming platform to Amazon OpenSearch. They had to either write custom code using AWS Lambda as an intermediary, refactor the HTTP Sink connector, or self-manage an old Elasticsearch connector version. Earlier this year, we announced the fully managed OpenSearch Sink connector, providing a seamless way to sink data from Confluent to Amazon OpenSearch.

Confluent is thrilled to be named Microsoft’s 2024 OSS on Azure Global Partner of the Year. As a three-time Partner of the Year award winner, this recognition reflects our commitment to delivering outstanding open source-based applications and infrastructure solutions on Microsoft Azure.

In today’s hyper-connected world, systems are more intertwined and complex than ever. Myriad data sources including applications, databases, network and IoT devices continuously generate vast amounts of data, capturing every event and interaction. Imagine harnessing this data–login logs, firewall logs, IPS logs, web logins–aggregating it, and analyzing it to create a holistic view of your entire infrastructure.

In this post, we demonstrate how a robust and scalable generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) chatbot is built using Amazon Bedrock and Confluent Cloud. We walk through the architecture and implementation of this generative AI chatbot, and see how it uses Confluent's real-time event streaming capabilities along with Amazon's infrastructure to continually stay up to date with the latest advances from the AI landscape.