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Intro to Apache Kafka: How Kafka Works

We recently published tutorial videos and a series of tweets on the Apache Kafka® platform as we see it. After you hear that there’s a thing called Kafka but before

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Confluent Cloud: Fully Managed Kafka as a Cloud-Native Service

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The Data Streaming Revolution: Rise of the Kafka Heroes

A must-read for practitioners interested in Kafka and event-driven architectures! Join our heroes Ada and Jax as they escape from homegrown ETL pipelines and legacy data systems in Batchland to joi...

What is Kafka?

Apache Kafka is an open-source distributed event streaming platform used by over 80% of the Fortune 100 for real-time data pipelines, data integration, and event-driven systems.

What is Event-Driven Architecture?

Event-driven architecture is a software design pattern that can detect, process, and react to real-time events as they happen.

Forrester Wave™: Streaming Data Platforms, Q4 2023 Report

Forrester Wave™: Streaming Data Platforms, Q4 2023 Report

Data Streaming Platforms: To Build or to Buy?

Making these decisions for your team can be challenging. It's important to consider factors like cost, maintenance, your team's expertise, as well as scalability (it tends to cause issues in the ...

We can't just adopt new tools; we need to combine new tools with a mindset shift.

Uniting ML and data streaming requires overcoming technical and socio-technical barriers. Organisations need to adopt decentralised, domain-driven approaches like data mesh and feature-oriented tea...

Free Course: Designing Event-Driven Microservices

This course explores the principles of microservices and how they can be extended to build Event-Driven Architectures. Start off by exploring similarities and differences between Monoliths and Mic...

What is Generative AI?

Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) refers to AI models that generate new content such as text, images, audio, and videos based on the data they were trained on. GenAI relies on deep learnin...

How GenAI Works

Generative AI refers to deep-learning models that generate text, images, audio, and videos from trained data in real time. Learn how GenAI works with use case examples from Confluent’s data glossary.

The Data Streaming Platform: Key to AI Initiatives

Learn how Gen AI is transforming the way businesses approach their data strategy, offering real-time, context-driven content generation.

Generative AI: An Introduction to GPT, LLMs, and More

Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) refers to AI models that generate new content such as text, images, audio, and videos based on the data they were trained on. GenAI applications like Chat...

Data Streaming and RAG for GenAI

Is your AI chatbot hallucinating? LLMs are a great foundational tool that has made AI accessible for everyone, but they lack real-time domain-specific data. Building cutting-edge GenAI applications...

What are LLMs?

Large Language Models (LLMs), such as those used in GenAI, have significantly enhanced existing capabilities by not only predicting outcomes but also generating new content. LLMs are trained on ext...

What is RAG?

RAG is an architectural pattern in generative AI designed to enhance the accuracy and relevance of responses generated by Large Language Models (LLMs). It works by retrieving external data from a v...

Data Streaming is Everywhere, Literally…

The Data in Motion Tour 2024 is stopping by your city! Join us for an opportunity to network with your peers and ecosystem partners, hear directly from customers, learn from our team of Apache Ka...

How Streaming Pipelines Drive Better Business Outcomes

Discover why enterprises rely on Confluent Cloud to realize performance, scalability, and reliability while unlocking powerful streaming data pipeline use cases that drive business efficiency and i...

Using Kafka with Flink | Apache Flink 101

Flink has first-class support for developing applications that use Kafka. This video includes a quick introduction to Kafka, and shows how Kafka can be used with Flink SQL.

Transforming Online Shopping Experience With Data Streaming

OTTO, one of Germany’s largest online marketplaces, expanded from being an e-commerce provider to a comprehensive e-commerce platform. This transition presented significant scaling challenges due t...

Customer 360 Use Case

To unlock improved conversion rates and personalised experiences, companies often want to know which web pages visitors have browsed and engaged with. Analysing online behavior is useful for under...

Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) with Data Streaming

How do you prevent hallucinations from large language models (LLMs) in GenAI applications? LLMs need real-time, contextualized, and trustworthy data to generate the most reliable outputs. Kai Waeh...

Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) with Data Streaming

How do you prevent hallucinations from large language models (LLMs) in GenAI applications? LLMs need real-time, contextualized, and trustworthy data to generate the most reliable outputs. Kai Waeh...

5 Tips For Enterprise-Wide Adoption of Data Streaming

Apache Kafka 101: Introduction

Apache Kafka is used by over 80% of Fortune 100 companies to power real-time applications. Watch this video to understand what Kafka is, what an event is, and a basic introduction to key Kafka conc...

How Data Streaming Improves Equipment Effectiveness

Learn about data streaming applications within the manufacturing industry directly from Confluent’s Global Field CTO, Kai Waehner. In this episode he will walk you through use cases around predic...

Topics:

- The Flink APIs - Stream/Table Duality and Dynamic Tables - Features in Flink SQL - Streaming vs. Batch in Flink SQL

What is Data Streaming?

In reality, you already know. You encounter data streaming on a daily bases. Whether you're watching your favorite show on Netflix, receiving real-time stock market updates, or even scrolling throu...

What is Confluent?

Confluent is pioneering a new category of data infrastructure focused on data in motion. Confluent’s cloud-native offering is designed to be the intelligent connective tissue enabling real-time dat...

Quick Start for Confluent Cloud

Install Kafka with fully managed clusters, connectors, and topics with enterprise features in Confluent Cloud. Get started in AWS, Azure, and GCP in minutes.

Topics:

- What is Kafka? - Kafka Streams Example - Kafka Streams Framework - Kafka Streams Overview

Build Scalable AI-Enabled Applications with Confluent and AWS

No Data = No AI.

Real-time data is at the heart of successful AI integration. Besides cleaning and preparing data required to train the initial model, businesses have to consider data accessibility on the enterpr...

What is a Data Streaming Platform?

A Data Streaming Platform (DSP) is composed of six major inter-related components, covered in detail in this video. Each component has evolved over time to servce specific needs in the data streami...

Save ~$2.58M Using Confluent Cloud vs Apache Kafka

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Responsibility of Executives in Data Steaming Adoption

Over the last decade, more than 26,000 companies have decided that the solution they’ve been looking for is data streaming. However, even early adopters continue to face non-technical hurdles assoc...

Apache Flink® 101

Apache Flink is a battle-hardened stream processor widely used for demanding real-time applications. Core design principles include a share-nothing architecture with local state, event-time process...