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Unlock Cost Savings with Freight Clusters-Now in General Availability

Last year, we introduced Freight clusters, a new, cost-effective Confluent Cloud cluster type—purpose-built for high-throughput, latency-insensitive workloads—such as observability data, batch pipelines, and AI/ML data ingestion. Since then we've been working with early access customers to take their workloads to production, and in doing so, have helped them achieve 90% lower infrastructure costs, while maintaining the reliability we all know and expect from Confluent Cloud.

Introducing Real-Time Embeddings: Any Model, Any Vector Database-No Code Needed

We’re excited to announce the Create Embeddings Action, the newest member of Confluent Cloud for Apache Flink Actions suite and the first step in our journey toward no-code AI workflows. This no-code feature enables you to generate vector embeddings in real time, from any model, to any vector database, across any cloud platform. It’s the easiest way to create a live semantic layer for your AI workflows—ensuring fresher, more accurate data for better-performing systems.

Build Better APIs Faster: How SmartBear API Hub Brings Everything Together

The development of SmartBear API Hub, powered by Swagger, represents a significant advancement in how teams manage, test, and optimize API workflows. Our journey to create a cohesive, unified suite – API Hub – required integrating standalone products into a single, robust ecosystem, establishing a seamless user experience that bridges workflows across each product.

Introducing Database Connections in Choreo

In today’s fast-evolving tech world, seamless connectivity between applications and databases is critical, but often comes with challenges such as credential management and environment-specific configurations. Choreo simplifies this process by offering streamlined connection options to Choreo-managed databases, making it easy to integrate components with databases. We’re excited to announce our latest feature: database connections.

Kong Gateway 3.9: Extended AI Support and Enhanced Security

Today we're excited to announce Kong Gateway 3.9! Since unveiling Kong Gateway 3.8 at API Summit 2024 just a few months ago, we’ve been busy making important updates and improvements to Kong Gateway. This release introduces new functionality around LLM support for AI governance and security and threat protection. Keep reading to learn more!

What's new in Tricentis Vera 2024.3

We are excited to announce the release of Tricentis Vera 2024.3, delivering further enhancements to approval workflows, user management, system integrations, and performance optimizations for the native Tricentis Tosca integration. These updates streamline processes, improve usability, bolster security, and enhance efficiency, empowering teams to manage projects more effectively.

Yellowfin Unveils Version 9.14 with AI Assistants, REST API Enhancements

AUSTIN, TEXAS, USA, December 13, 2024 - Yellowfin, a leading global provider of business intelligence (BI) and analytics solutions, has officially launched version 9.14, bringing customers a host of significant improvements aimed at enhancing user experience, reporting, and REST API functionality.

New with Confluent Platform 7.8: Confluent Platform for Apache Flink (GA), mTLS Identity for RBAC Authorization, and More

At Confluent, we’re committed to building the world's leading data streaming platform that gives you the ability to stream, connect, process, and govern all your data, and makes it available wherever it’s needed, however it’s needed, in real time. Today, we're excited to announce the release of Confluent Platform 7.8. This release builds upon Apache Kafka 3.8, reinforcing our core capabilities as a data streaming platform.

Introducing Graph Pipelines: build faster, build smarter

Are you struggling to keep reducing build times as your project grows in complexity? Got particular workflows that take a long time to complete which needlessly hold up other parts of your build whilst you wait for the next stage? The waiting ends now with Graph Pipelines, a new feature which enables you to reduce overall build time by running CI tasks in parallel.