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From Building at Pinterest and Airbnb to Revolutionizing AI at Kumo.AI

Join us for expert insights on how data is rewriting the rules and driving the future of innovation with Dr. Vanja Josifovski, CEO and Founder of Kumo.AI. In this episode, Dr. Vanja shares his approach to enterprise AI and reveals why a "data-forward organization" is the key to success. He also explains why integration speed is now the new competitive edge, and makes a compelling case for rebuilding outdated systems to achieve a 10x advantage.

Predictable Scale: A Proven Methodology for Sustainable Business Growth (Pete Caputa, Databox)

How do you scale faster without burning out your team or chasing shiny tactics that don’t move the needle? Databox CEO Pete Caputa unveils Predictable Scale — a new methodology for building strategy, focus, and repeatable systems so you can grow with confidence. In this interview, Pete shares his SPEARS framework (Strategize, Plan, Execute, Adjust, Repeat, Scale), how to use data to set smarter goals, and why radical transparency accelerates alignment and results.

How to Protect PII in Apache Kafka With Schema Registry and Data Contracts

A data contract is a formal agreement between an upstream component and a downstream component on the structure and semantics of data that’s in motion. In a previous post, I showed how Confluent Schema Registry supports data contracts. By combining data contracts and encryption on streaming workloads, you can shift left the responsibility of data consistency, quality, and security to the producer, allowing the consumer to depend on a trustworthy stream of data.

Visualizing BigQuery geospatial data in Colab

Geospatial data is a powerful tool for gaining insights into everything from customer behavior to environmental patterns. BigQuery allows you to store and analyze this location data using standard SQL, and bringing that data into a Colab notebook gives you the flexibility to combine BigQuery's power with popular Python visualization libraries. This approach is perfect for ad-hoc or iterative analysis. In this video, we'll give you an overview of these capabilities and walk through a demo of how you can analyze and visualize your geospatial data.

Hitachi Vantara's Virtual Storage Platform One Now Available in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace

Expanded cloud compatibility and built-in capabilities like compression, provisioning and replication can help enterprises simplify operations and reduce storage costs by up to 40%. Microsoft Azure customers worldwide now gain access to Hitachi Vantara Virtual Storage Platform One to take advantage of the scalability, reliability and agility of Azure to drive application development and shape business strategies.

Moesif + Gloo Gateway: Deep API Analytics and Observability at the Edge

Solo.io Gloo Gateway gives teams a reliable way to secure, route, and monitor API traffic in real time. With its high-performance Envoy core and Kubernetes-native design, it meets the demands of distributed applications and modern service architectures. However, performance metrics alone don’t reveal how developers engage with your APIs or why adoption stalls.

Unleash Real-Time Agentic AI: Introducing Streaming Agents on Confluent Cloud

As AI models become commoditized, the conversation is shifting from building smarter models to building data infrastructure that turns models into real business value. Enterprises are accelerating their adoption of agentic AI—systems that don’t just predict but plan, decide, and act autonomously—across their software and operations.

New in Confluent Cloud: Unleashing Cost-Effective Streaming for Any Workload

Streaming at scale just got a lot more powerful and cost-effective. Our Q3 Confluent Cloud launch is packed with innovations to help you do more with less: reduce cloud networking costs while maintaining your security posture, scale effortlessly with boosted connection limits, and build production-ready agentic artificial intelligence (AI) applications with seamless tool integrations.