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New in Confluent Cloud and WarpStream: Evolving the Data Streaming Platform for AI, Scale, and Control

Aug 18, 2026 By Mike Agnich In Confluent
In the last few months, Confluent has released over 70 new features to our data streaming platform, ranging from new connectors to better networking connectivity to entirely new ways to build streaming applications. We are not slowing down. Confluent’s DSP can do more, across every pillar, in ways that are more powerful, more complete, and more connected than ever before.
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New in Confluent Intelligence and AI Tools: Making Agents Native to the Stream, Expanded Model Support, New Agent Skills, and Copilot

Aug 18, 2026 By Confluent Staff In Confluent
A customer writes in asking where their order is. The AI support agent checks the account, sees the order marked shipped, and sends a reply. The order was cancelled forty minutes ago. The agent wasn't wrong about anything it could see. It was reasoning over stale data that refreshes every six hours. This is why AI projects stall. Not because the models aren't capable, but because they lack AI-ready data and a reliable view of the current state of the business.
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Confluent Cloud for Apache Flink: Engine for Mission-Critical, Real-Time Operational Systems and dbt/SQL-Native Home for Data Science and AI

Aug 18, 2026 By Yashwanth Dasari In Confluent
Organizations today are under immense pressure to deliver on two critical fronts: building mission-critical, real-time operational systems and powering the next generation data science and artificial intelligence (AI) workflows with analytics-ready data. Historically, achieving both meant navigating a divided, complex architecture.
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5 Ways Automation Is Improving Food Manufacturing Quality and Safety

5 Ways Automation Is Improving Food Manufacturing Quality and Safety

Aug 18, 2026 By SystemsDigest In SystemsDigest
Food manufacturers have always operated under intense pressure to deliver products that are both consistent and safe. A single contamination event or a batch of mislabeled allergens can trigger recalls, damage brand trust, and put consumers at risk. As production volumes grow and supply chains stretch across borders, manual inspection processes are struggling to keep pace. That's where automation is stepping in, transforming how food is monitored, tested, and cleared for shelves. Continue reading to learn more about how automation improves food manufacturing.
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Chaos Monkey Won't Find Your Bug

Aug 17, 2026 By Matt LeRay In Speedscale
We shipped a chaos feature that never caused any chaos. Our mock server has had a fault-injection effect for years with a straightforward job: withhold the response entirely and see whether the caller copes. Last week I audited it against the actual code path. It had never withheld anything. The handler returned early without writing a response. Go’s net/http then did what it is designed to do, which is synthesize a 200 OK and flush the recorded body.
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Who's Responsible When AI Gives You the Wrong Answer? Andy Cotgreave and Francois Lopitaux Debate

Aug 17, 2026 By ThoughtSpot In ThoughtSpot
If an AI agent gives a business user the wrong number, and a consequential decision gets made off it, who's responsible? The data analyst who built the semantic layer? The platform? Or the business user who asked the question and acted on the answer?
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Take a Tour of the Future of Modern PHP Management

Aug 17, 2026 By Perforce In Perforce
Better PHP management has arrived. Introducing the Zend Web Platform, available in both Core and Enterprise editions. Built for modern PHP applications, the platform helps development teams improve security, observability, scalability, and efficiency across their infrastructure. In this walkthrough, we'll explore both editions of the Zend Web Platform, which offer a powerful command center that provides a single pane of glass into the health and performance of your PHP applications. See how it delivers.
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