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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 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.

Welcome to Episode 13 of The Innovation Blueprint! In this episode, host Yurii Rudakov from ORIL sits down with Connie Lee, Co-founder & CEO of Reffie, a SaaS platform for the real estate industry. Connie shares how a frustrating experience as a landlord led her to build a solution that’s now transforming property management. The conversation delves into the importance of automation in real estate, the role of AI as a co-pilot in business operations, and the future of technology in the industry.

decK is a wonderful tool for managing Kong Gateway configuration declaratively, but before you know it you find yourself editing a 1000 line long YAML file that is is hard to manage. In this call, Michael will take you through the techniques used by some of Kong's biggest users to split their configuration files in to manageable chunks. There will be slides, there will be documentation, and as always, there will be demos.

Ken Ahrens from Speedscale break down the challenges with service mocks — from the complexity of building them to common misunderstandings about their purpose. Many think of mocks like unit test stubs, but service mocks are much more powerful. They can simulate production conditions right on your laptop, making testing more realistic and reliable.

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.

Enjoy this lesson from the Introduction to Search and Answers course found in the Business User learning path at ThoughtSpot University. This lesson covers the basics of searching a data source to gain insights into your data.

Headquartered in Sydney, Domain Group is a leading Australian property marketplace. Its mission is to inspire confidence in life’s property decisions, and its property marketplace tools reach an average audience of 7 million Australians every month. A long-time Snowflake customer, Domain has started to work with Cortex Analyst in order to enable its staff to query its large data sets using natural language.

Now introducing P4 One, an intuitive version control client designed for artists and creators working with images, 3D models, videos, and other binary assets. If you’re already using P4 (formerly Helix Core) but looking for more intuitive version control for your artists and designers, P4 One fills the gap. It’s the easiest way to introduce your art teams to version control, eliminate rework, and let your art teams submit their work directly to the same version control your team is already using.

Protect your enterprise AI from misuse and safeguard sensitive data effortlessly. In this concise demo, you'll learn how Kong Inc. helps organizations enforce powerful security guardrails around AI interactions. Key highlights include: AI Prompt Guard: Set precise rules to allow or block specific prompts. AI Semantic Prompt Guard: Go beyond simple rules by using AI to understand and intelligently filter prompts based on their semantic meaning. Enhance your AI security strategy and confidently mitigate risks with Kong.