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Starting With Purpose: In-Person Onboarding in a Remote-First World

Jan 23, 2026 By Colleen McCreary In Confluent
The hardest part about remote work is building real connection and purpose when everyone is not in the same room. At Confluent, we know flexibility is essential, but we also know that great work and a sense of belonging don’t just happen; they take effort. That’s why we’re intentional about how we bring people together, starting from day one.
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Thunai Automates Customer Support with AI Agents and Data Streaming

Jan 23, 2026 By Aditya Santhanam In Confluent
Support teams live in a world of repetitive questions, fragmented tools, and growing customer expectations. Customer service agents bounce between customer relationship management (CRM) systems, ticketing, email, and chat while customers wait, often repeating the same information across channels. Batch-based systems are unscalable for AI: Context is always a step behind, escalations pile up, and it’s difficult to intervene in time.
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Confluent Cloud Is Your Life (K)Raft Away From Hosted Apache Kafka

Jan 16, 2026 By David Marsh In Confluent
Streaming your data with Apache Kafka, at its core, involves moving data from one point to another in real time, much like a river flows from its source to its destination. However, beneath this seemingly straightforward goal lies significant complexity and hidden costs. The multitude of available deployment options, hosted and managed Kafka services, and design choices make it difficult to navigate the data streaming landscape.
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How to Build a Custom Kafka Connector - A Comprehensive Guide

Jan 12, 2026 By Confluent Staff In Confluent
In today’s data-driven world, seamless data integration is crucial to ensuring the smooth operation of modern systems. With the growing complexity of distributed data platforms, businesses and developers are seeking efficient ways to move, process, and transform data. Apache Kafka has become the de facto standard for real-time data streaming, and Kafka Connect plays a key role in facilitating the integration of Kafka with various data sources and sinks.
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Confluent Connect: FY'25 Launch Highlights - Unlocking Data & Powering AI Pipelines

Dec 24, 2025 By Confluent In Confluent
Dive into the biggest breakthroughs for the Confluent Connect ecosystem in 2025! This year, we made moving data easier than ever, from modernizing legacy systems with the Oracle XStream CDC Premium Connector to empowering developers with Custom SMTs and Custom Connectors on Google Cloud. Discover the over 10 new connectors we launched, including Snowflake Source, Azure Cosmos DB v2, and Neo4j Sink, plus the release of Confluent Hub 2.0. Learn how Confluent Cloud connectors are breaking down silos and building bridges for your next-gen AI and data modernization projects.
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Why Managing Your Apache Kafka Schemas Is Costing You More Than You Think

Dec 23, 2025 By Mohtasham Sayeed Mohiuddin In Confluent
For developers building event-driven systems, schemas are essential for using schemas to define data contracts between producers and consumers in Apache Kafka, ensuring every message can be correctly interpreted. But when schema management is handled manually or through do-it-yourself (DIY) solutions, organizations face escalating expenses that compound as their deployments scale.
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Confluent Recognized in 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Integration Tools

Dec 23, 2025 By Chris Potter In Confluent
We are pleased to announce that Confluent has been recognized again as a Challenger in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Integration Tools. We believe this recognition validates the scale and reliability of our platform, acknowledging our "Ability to Execute" in powering the mission-critical data flows of the world's largest organizations.
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