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Check Out Confluent’s New Developer Site July 27, 2021 Working with data in motion at clothing brand Boden June 3, 2021 Why developers use Confluent to manage Apache Kafka May 27, 2021 Confluent Combines Cloud Native and On-Premises Data Streaming Through Single API May 19, 2021 Confluent Makes Deploying Kafka on Kubernetes Easier May 12, 2021 Kafka users detail real-time data benefits April 26, 2021 Quickstart to Apache Kafka Stream Processing with ksqlDB April 12, 2021 Beyond the Quickstart: Running Apache Kafka as a Service on Kubernetes April 8, 2021 The 50 best product/design and engineering teams to work for March 26, 2021 Cory Scott joins Confluent as first CISO March 10, 2021 How data streaming can address the returns culture in retail and boost profits March 1, 2021 Stephanie Buscemi Goes Further Into The Cloud As Confluent’s New Chief Marketing Officer February 16, 2021 Confluent Premium Connector Integrates Oracle and Kafka February 16, 2021 Kafka backer Confluent introduces Premium Connector for Oracle Database February 2, 2021 Confluent’s Kafka Platform Becomes an Integrated Service for Azure January 29, 2021 Confluent strengthens strategic alliance with Microsoft January 29, 2021 Confluent Announces Strategic Alliance with Microsoft January 5, 2021 Why event streaming is key to your hybrid cloud strategy November 26, 2020 IBM and Confluent partnership will leverage event streaming November 24, 2020 Big Blue Taps Into Streaming Data with Confluent Connection November 16, 2020 Beyond the Database, and beyond the Stream Processor: What's the Next Step for Data Management? November 11, 2020 Confluent ‘Proactive Support’ Aims to Speed Resolution of Kafka Streaming Data Issues November 10, 2020 Confluent Moves to Boost Kafka Reliability November 8, 2020 Digitalisation World Q&A on Kafka November 5, 2020 The Rise of the Event Streaming Database November 5, 2020 Humana uses Azure and Kafka to make healthcare less frustrating for doctors and patients October 18, 2020 2020 Datanami Readers’ Choice Awards September 22, 2020 LinkedIn Top Startups 2020: The 50 U.S. companies on the rise September 22, 2020 Bosch Power Tools' metamorphosis into a data company with Kafka September 16, 2020 CEO Of $4.5 Billion Confluent: The Future Of Open Source Will Be Bought, Not Built September 3, 2020 The Biggest User Of Software, Is Software August 27, 2020 Confluent Platform 6.0 Designed to Create a Global Mesh of Kafka August 26, 2020 Confluent Platform 6 brings cluster linking to Apache Kafka August 24, 2020 Confluent Platform 6.0 ushers in cluster linking for Apache Kafka August 21, 2020 Event Stream Processing: How Banks Can Overcome SQL and NoSQL Related Obstacles with Apache Kafka July 28, 2020 Infinite Storage & Retention for Apache Kafka in Confluent Cloud July 26, 2020 Meet the 54 most valuable enterprise tech startups, worth as much as $216 billion collectively July 23, 2020 Best Companies for Professional Development 2020 July 20, 2020 Emerging Big Data Vendors To Know In 2020 July 20, 2020 Building a cloud roadmap: top tips on best practice July 17, 2020 Index OnAir: The Evolution and Future of Open Source July 1, 2020 Confluent announces "Infinite Kafka" release July 1, 2020 Big data has eaten the world. 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June 25, 2020 What COVID-19 has taught banks about moving to the Cloud June 23, 2020 Confluent Hires Google Cloud CFO Tomlinson; Expected IPO Looms June 22, 2020 Google Cloud finance chief leaves to become CFO of Confluent as software start-up heads for public market June 3, 2020 Delivering New, Real-time Customer Experiences June 1, 2020 The 2020SD Times 100: 'Best in Show' in Software Development May 24, 2020 As Facebook, Twitter and others say OK to permanent remote work, these 6 startups building tools to work outside the office are Silicon Valley's new darlings May 13, 2020 Confluent launches project to transform Kafka-based event streaming following funding boost May 11, 2020 He Left His High-Paying Job At LinkedIn And Then Built A $4.5 Billion Business In A Niche You’ve Never Heard Of May 6, 2020 Confluent improves Kafka event streaming in the cloud May 6, 2020 The Best Big Data Companies To Work For Based On Glassdoor May 6, 2020 Confluent introduces scale on demand for Apache Kafka cloud customers May 4, 2020 Commercial open source software startups will thrive during the coronavirus crisis, VCs say. Here are 31 they believe are poised for success April 28, 2020 The Coolest Data Management And Integration Tool Companies Of The 2020 Big Data 100 April 27, 2020 Apache Kafka 2.5: Latest Release Brings Host of Welcome Updates April 25, 2020 KSQL Now Available on Confluent Cloud April 22, 2020 More investment streams in for Confluent April 22, 2020 Startup Confluent Valued at $4.5 Billion After New Funding April 21, 2020 Confluent lands $250M in late-stage funding, raising its valuation to $4.5 billion April 21, 2020 Confluent lands another big round with $250M Series E on $4.5B valuation April 21, 2020 Confluent draws $250 million in Series E funding April 21, 2020 Confluent Uses Deep Pockets to Extend Kafka April 6, 2020 Applications: Combining the old with the new March 16, 2020 Confluent: Event streaming moves monoliths to microservices March 6, 2020 Confluent Offers Apache Kafka as a Service on the Azure Marketplace March 4, 2020 Data and Analytics – how can event streaming help February 20, 2020 Integrating data is getting harder, but also more important February 5, 2020 InfoWorld’s 2020 Technology of the Year Award winners January 31, 2020 Experience Using Event Streams, Kafka and the Confluent Platform at Deutsche Bahn January 23, 2020 Confluent Boosts Streaming Event Platform with Security Capabilities January 22, 2020 Top Four Features in Confluent Platform 5.4 January 22, 2020 New Confluent Platform release boosts event streaming quality December 20, 2019 Apache Kafka version 2.4 improves streaming data performance December 12, 2019 The 25 major companies with the most satisfied employees of 2019 December 11, 2019 The 10 Hottest New Big Data Technologies Of 2019 December 11, 2019 These were the 15 best CEOs of 2019 December 11, 2019 Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Google's Sundar Pichai, fall out of top-10 in annual ranking of CEOs December 10, 2019 The Best Companies For Corporate Culture In 2019 December 10, 2019 Confluent: Events provide an 'in-built primitive' for continuous coding December 10, 2019 Gwen Shapira on the Power of Event-Driven Architecture December 10, 2019 What is Apache Kafka? A Simple Explainer December 10, 2019 Event streaming - a vehicle for IT modernisation November 27, 2019 Jay Kreps: Events, Event Streams and Their Importance in a Digital Business November 26, 2019 See you on the other side, Egon: Confluent invites relational devs to dip toe into Kafka's streams with ksqlDB November 25, 2019 Will Users Tune Into ‘Application Playlists’ In Future? November 21, 2019 Open-source project ksqlDB wants to bring event stream processing to the mainstream November 21, 2019 Confluent introduces ksqlDB event streaming database November 20, 2019 Confluent Reveals ksqlDB, a Streaming Database Built on Kafka October 24, 2019 Ticketmaster tackles tech debt with streaming data platform October 23, 2019 Co-founder of a multi-billion dollar company says a lesson from her dad was ‘the single biggest influence’ on her career October 21, 2019 Real-Time Applications, Cloud Computing Growing: Bloomberg CIO Exchange October 17, 2019 Marie Claire's 7th Annual New Guard October 16, 2019 Harnessing the Power of the Cloud: Bloomberg’s CIO Exchange October 14, 2019 Co-founder of a multibillion-dollar company: Here’s how to get ahead in your career October 11, 2019 Ticketmaster unifies DevOps monitoring with Confluent Kafka October 8, 2019 Get to Know the Female Entrepreneurs Who Are Reshaping the Business World October 7, 2019 Event streaming: The technology you use every day, but may have never heard of September 30, 2019 Confluent adds free Kafka real-time streaming data cloud service September 30, 2019 Higher Abstractions, Lower Complexity in Kafka’s Future September 18, 2019 Exclusive: Software unicorn Confluent expands in Silicon Valley with new global HQ in Mountain View September 11, 2019 NASDAQ Cloud 100 Report with Jay Kreps, CEO of Confluent September 11, 2019 A Truck Tracker, A Coder Toolbox, And A Unicorn From Down Under: Inside This Year’s Cloud 100 September 9, 2019 Data Ingestion: Just Because You Can, Doesn’t Mean You Should September 5, 2019 These are the 28 hottest tech startups to work at, according to LinkedIn September 4, 2019 Top Startups To Work For In 2019 According To LinkedIn August 27, 2019 10 Apache Kafka best practices for data management pros August 12, 2019 How Nationwide plans to attract the best tech talent to its new London hub July 26, 2019 Palo Alto female founder intent on bringing diversity to leadership positions, sharing lesson from her own billion dollar company July 22, 2019 Emerging Big Data Vendors To Know In 2019 July 11, 2019 Trying to make enterprise software fun July 9, 2019 C-suite career advice: Neha Narkhede, Confluent June 26, 2019 How to Make Kafka Cloud Native June 18, 2019 Confluent CEO Jay Kreps - Top CEOs 2019 Employees' Choice May 22, 2019 CxO of the Week: Neha Narkhede, CEO and Co-Founder of Confluent May 21, 2019 Kai Waehner explains why you need Kafka May 20, 2019 What's behind the ascendency of enterprise open source? May 20, 2019 How Nationwide's new streaming platform enables it to compete with the challenger banks May 17, 2019 The Best Big Data Companies And CEOs To Work For In 2019 Based On Glassdoor May 15, 2019 Confluent makes Apache Kafka cloud-native May 14, 2019 Confluent says it has the first cloud-native Kafka streaming platform May 1, 2019 The Coolest Big Data Management And Integration Software Of The 2019 Big Data 100 April 15, 2019 Kafka at center of new event processing infrastructure April 10, 2019 Confluent and Google Cloud announce strategic partnership for workload streaming April 10, 2019 The 6 most important announcements from Google Cloud Next 2019 April 2, 2019 Confluent's Kafka distro adds dev, management and hybrid cloud capabilities March 12, 2019 Neha Narkhede: Open Source Isn’t A Business Model, It's A Distribution Strategy February 28, 2019 The Importance of Event-First Thinking January 23, 2019 Open-source leader Confluent raises $125M on $2.5B valuation January 23, 2019 Open-Source Unicorn: Confluent Reaches $2.5 Billion Valuation Three Years After Hiring Its First Sales Rep October 19, 2018 Pretty low level, pretty big deal: Apache Kafka and Confluent Open Source go mainstream October 17, 2018 Confluent Platform 5.0 Supports LDAP Authorization and MQTT Proxy for IoT Integration September 18, 2018 Want to Really Empower Women? Make Sure They Have This 1 Thing September 13, 2018 The Cloud 100 September 12, 2018 2018 Datanami Readers’ & Editors’ Choice Awards September 12, 2018 The Founders Index: A rising generation of female entrepreneurs in the US September 7, 2018 Confluent Targets IBM, Oracle In $27B Middleware Market September 7, 2018 Are you really building a serverless system? September 7, 2018 Democratizing Stream Processing with Apache Kafka® and KSQL - Part 2 August 7, 2018 Confluent Platform 5.0 aims to mainstream Kafka streaming August 7, 2018 Confluent Streaming Data: Product Overview and Analysis August 2, 2018 Confluent Strengthens IoT Integration for Enterprise Kafka August 1, 2018 Confluent 5.0 focuses on securing and managing infrastructure July 31, 2018 Confluent release adds enterprise, developer, IoT savvy to Apache Kafka July 14, 2018 Kafka is establishing its toehold July 6, 2018 Change data capture as a gateway to a streaming platform July 2, 2018 Is Event Streaming the new Big Thing for Finance? June 30, 2018 This Week in Numbers: Apache Kafka’s Metamorphosis June 15, 2018 Democratizing Stream Processing with Apache Kafka and KSQL May 22, 2018 Confluent brings fully-managed Kafka to the Google Cloud Platform May 22, 2018 Confluent, Google Team Up to Provide Streaming Data Platform May 3, 2018 Want Kafka on Kubernetes? Confluent Has It Made April 23, 2018 Busting event-driven myths April 18, 2018 Ep. 53: Jay Kreps talks cloud-native, Kafka competitors and a resurgence of enterprise IT innovation March 26, 2018 On Apache Kafka®. Q&A with Gwen Shapira March 7, 2018 Confluent Adds KSQL Support to Kafka Platform February 28, 2018 Big, fast, easy data with KSQL February 26, 2018 Weighing Open Source’s Worth for the Future of Big Data November 28, 2017 Confluent Cloud Uses Apache Kafka for Streaming Data as a Service November 22, 2017 The current state of Apache Kafka November 15, 2017 10 hot startups targeting today’s key IT initiatives November 3, 2017 Apache Kafka 1.0 Released Exactly Once October 26, 2017 Confluent Releases KSQL, a Distributed Streaming SQL Engine for Apache Kafka October 21, 2017 Technista Talk: Neha Narkhede - LinkedIn Employee To Confluent Boss October 19, 2017 Confluent CTO Neha Narkhede on Kafka's role in modern applications October 18, 2017 Apache Kafka and the four challenges of production machine learning systems September 27, 2017 Session with Neha Narkhede September 25, 2017 What Are Microservices? - Part 2: An Interview With Confluent CEO Jay Kreps September 25, 2017 What Are Microservices? - Part 1: An Interview With Matt Miller Of Sequoia August 31, 2017 Confluent's Kafka data-streaming framework gets 'SQL-ized' August 29, 2017 Confluent Brings SQL Querying to Kafka Streaming Data August 28, 2017 Kafka Gets Streaming SQL Engine, KSQL August 28, 2017 Kafka gets SQL with KSQL August 25, 2017 Apache Kafka gets ‘exactly-once’ message delivery – and that’s a big deal August 16, 2017 MIT Tech Review: 35 Innovators Under 35 August 15, 2017 How Kafka Helped Rabobank Modernize Alerting System July 31, 2017 Apache Kafka Survey Reveals Growing Importance of Streaming Data July 25, 2017 Former LinkedIn tech lead now charts Kafka streaming wave at Confluent July 12, 2017 40 Under 40: Jay Kreps of Confluent July 11, 2017 Forbes Cloud 100 July 5, 2017 The 18 hottest enterprise startups of 2017 July 3, 2017 A Peek Inside Kafka’s New ‘Exactly Once’ Feature June 30, 2017 Confluent achieves Holy Grail of ‘exactly once’ delivery on Kafka messaging service June 20, 2017 Kafka: The story so far May 31, 2017 How Pandora Uses Kafka May 12, 2017 Startup Confluent makes Kafka cloud play to ease streaming deployment May 8, 2017 Apache Kafka Startup Confluent Launches A Cloud Service With Bold Words For AWS May 7, 2017 The Continued Rise of Apache Kafka May 5, 2017 Kafka ‘Massively Simplifies’ Data Infrastructure, Report Says May 1, 2017 2017 Big Data 100: 35 Coolest Data Management And Integration Vendors April 20, 2017 Kafka channels the big data firehose April 7, 2017 Jay Kreps on the evolution of Kafka and the need for simplicity in data infrastructure March 29, 2017 People to Watch 2017 March 29, 2017 20 B2B Technologies To Try In 2017 March 24, 2017 Confluent launches London HQ to serve growing demand for Apache Kafka real-time data streaming March 8, 2017 Confluent’s $50M and the bright future for open source March 8, 2017 “Engineers love a good challenge”: Confluent’s Jay Kreps on attracting talent March 7, 2017 Streaming data juggernaut Confluent announces $50M in Series C funding March 7, 2017 Confluent raises $50M to continue growing commercial arm of Apache Kafka March 7, 2017 How Kafka Redefined Data Processing for the Streaming Age March 7, 2017 Data streaming startup Confluent secures $50M round backed by Sequoia March 7, 2017 Confluent raises $50 million led by Sequoia Capital March 7, 2017 These former LinkedIn engineers just raised another $50 million to help spread the software they invented February 9, 2017 Exactly Once: Why It’s Such a Big Deal for Apache Kafka February 3, 2017 An inside look at why Apache Kafka adoption is exploding January 25, 2017 InfoWorld's 2017 Technology of the Year Award winners December 29, 2016 Delta-V Awards - 2016 Edition - The Top Five December 21, 2016 3 Innovative Startups Making Big Data Manageable for Everyone December 16, 2016 The 10 Coolest Startups Of 2016 December 13, 2016 A New Day for Streaming Data, with Kafka and Confluent December 7, 2016 Interview: Gwen Shapira, System Architect at Confluent December 7, 2016 Trend-Setting Products for 2017 November 30, 2016 Video: 3 considerations IT must make before moving to the cloud November 30, 2016 Video: The 3 trends that are defining next-gen big data deployments October 19, 2016 How Apache Kafka is powering a real-time data revolution October 14, 2016 Kafka Event Sourcing with Neha Narkhede October 7, 2016 Kafka Streams with Jay Kreps October 5, 2016 Confluent Announces Kafka for the Enterprise with Multi-Datacenter Replication September 28, 2016 Commercial Kafka Distro Gets Global Smarts September 28, 2016 Fresh Streaming Data: Get It While It’s Hot September 28, 2016 Apache Kafka Grabs Big Data Spotlight September 28, 2016 Confluent retools Kafka for traditional enterprises September 27, 2016 25 Data Management Vendors Worth Watching August 15, 2016 Big Data Startup Confluent Ratchets Up Channel Efforts With New Program, Executive Hires July 21, 2016 Startup CFO’s Mantra: People First, Finance Second July 20, 2016 25 Emerging Vendors You Need To Know About July 15, 2016 The 10 Coolest Big Data Products Of 2016 July 13, 2016 Big Data At Ancestry.com: Why Data Stewardship And Open Source Matter So Much July 7, 2016 Investments in Fast Data Analytics Surge June 19, 2016 Neha Narkhede: Large-Scale Stream Processing with Apache Kafka June 9, 2016 Confluent Provides Updates to Apache Kafka Streaming Data Platform June 6, 2016 Kafka Streaming Gets a New Twist June 3, 2016 Kafka streaming gets a new twist June 3, 2016 Confluent Platform 3.0 Supports Kafka Streams for Real-Time Data Processing May 27, 2016 Confluent Boosts its Streaming Data Solution May 26, 2016 Confluent Platform 3 Brings New Kafka, Control Center May 25, 2016 Apache Kafka Stars in Two New Open Source Big Data Offerings May 24, 2016 Kafka Creators Tackle Consistency Problem in Data Pipelines May 24, 2016 Confluent Platform 3.0 Now Available May 24, 2016 Streaming data, simplified: Kafka Streams reaches GA May 16, 2016 Neha Narkhede is one of Fast Company's Most Creative People in Business in 2016 May 2, 2016 2016 Big Data 100: 30 Coolest Data Management Vendors April 28, 2016 Kafka Summit: Big Data In Real-Time Gains Momentum April 27, 2016 Kafka Summit Highlights Lack of Bugs April 27, 2016 Apache Kafka Gains Traction Among Enterprise Users April 27, 2016 Confluent to Offer Classes on How to Run Kafka Correctly April 26, 2016 Open Source Big Data Tool Kafka Advances in Enterprise April 18, 2016 Hadoop, Kafka Creators Big on Big Data Streaming Analytics April 11, 2016 12 Inspiring Women In Data Science, Big Data April 7, 2016 Data in the emerging world of stream processing April 6, 2016 The Real-Time Rise of Apache Kafka April 5, 2016 Reporter’s Notebook: 6 Key Takeaways from Strata + Hadoop World March 31, 2016 Kafka is the New Standard in Big Data Messaging March 28, 2016 People to Watch 2016 March 26, 2016 Distributed Stream Processing with Apache Kafka March 14, 2016 Microservices for a Streaming World March 14, 2016 Kafka Gets a Stream-Processing Makeover March 10, 2016 The Value of Real Time Data Processing February 19, 2016 Real-time Data Pipelines with Kafka Connect February 4, 2016 The Rise and Rise of Apache Kafka January 20, 2016 InfoWorld's 2016 Technology of the Year Award Winners January 12, 2016 How Apache Kafka is Fundamentally Changing the Streaming of Big Data December 25, 2015 The 53 Startups That Will Be Huge in 2016, According to Venture Capitalists December 11, 2015 Confluent's Platform Receives Updated Apache Kafka 0.9 Core December 11, 2015 Confluent Unveils Next Generation of Apache Kafka as Enterprise Adoption Soars December 11, 2015 Confluent 2.0 Brings New Kafka Features to the Enterprise December 10, 2015 Confluent Updates Open Source, Kafka-Based Platform for Big Data Streaming December 9, 2015 Confluent's Apache Kafka Gets Security, Real-Time Messaging Updates December 8, 2015 Confluent Gives Kafka More Enterprise Chops December 8, 2015 Confluent’s Apache Kafka Distro Gets a Lot More Secure November 11, 2015 Piping hot: Why is Apache Kafka catching on? 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