Is it better to launch fast or wait for perfection? @Saurabh Shanbhag explains the "fail fast" strategy, where teams quickly release imperfect products to get real customer feedback and improve. Instead of taking years to perfect, they launch in months, see what works, and adjust from there. This approach helps companies adapt, find market fit, and build better products based on actual user insights.

In today’s fast-paced financial services landscape, customers have a shorter attention span than ever. To meet clients’ growing demands for real-time access to information and keep innovating in areas like fraud detection and personalized financial advice, Thrivent needed to overhaul its data infrastructure. With data scattered across siloed legacy systems, diverse tech stacks, and multiple cloud environments, the challenge was a bit daunting. But by adopting Confluent Cloud, Thrivent was able to unify its disparate data systems into a single source of truth.