In today’s world, innovation doesn’t happen in a vacuum; collaboration can help technological breakthroughs happen faster. The rise of AI, for example, will depend on the collaboration between data and development. We’re increasingly seeing software engineering workloads that are deeply intertwined with a strong data foundation.

In large organizations, Confluent Cloud is often simultaneously accessed by many different users along with business-critical applications, potentially across different lines of business. With so many individual pieces working together, the risk of an individual outage, error, or incident affecting other services increases. An incident could be constituted by a user clicking a wrong button, an application’s misconfiguration, or just a bug—you name it.

A data pipeline is a series of processes that move raw data from one or more sources to one or more destinations, often transforming and processing the data along the way. Data pipelines are designed to automate the flow of data, enabling efficient and reliable data movement for various purposes, such as data analytics, reporting, or integration with other systems.

IT security professionals need to recognize the critical importance of securing data pipelines in a data-driven corporate environment.

Executives across various industries are under pressure to reach insights and make decisions quickly. This is driving the importance of streaming data and analytics, which play a crucial role in making better-informed decisions that likely lead to faster, better outcomes.

Cloud Functions will revolutionize your data pipeline.

We’re excited to share the latest and greatest features on Confluent Cloud, in our first launch of 2024. This Cloud Launch comes to you from Kafka Summit London, where we talked about the latest updates highlighted in our launch, including serverless Apache Flink®, some exciting pricing changes, updates to connectors, and more! We also shared our vision for a future offering, Tableflow.

Fivetran is recognized for its strength in data transformation and data quality.

At Integrate.io, we work with companies that build data pipelines. Some start cloud-native on platforms like Amazon Redshift, while others migrate from on-premise or hybrid solutions. What they all have in common is the one question they ask us at the very beginning: And so that’s why we decided to compile and publish a list of publicly available blog posts about how companies build their data pipelines.