TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

This change we’re seeing in the software market is mapped to the value of what a customer is getting out of the product,” said Liu. As a board member, I’ve seen everything from product releases to crucial GTM (go-to-market) changes slip because of billing complexity, even at deeply technical companies with excellent engineers.

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2022

At enterprises of a certain size, keeping track of data including apps, employees, and projects becomes increasingly challenging. “This growing problem was not only destroying productivity, but also sapping energy and detracting from the employee experience.” According to McKinsey, employees spend 1.8

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Confluent

MAY 13, 2019

In the last year, we’ve experienced enormous growth on Confluent Cloud, our fully managed Apache Kafka ® service. Confluent Cloud now handles several GB/s of traffic—a 200-fold increase in just six months. As Confluent Cloud has grown, we’ve noticed two gaps that very clearly remain to be filled in managed Apache Kafka services.

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Confluent

APRIL 10, 2019

Enterprises run modern data systems and services across multiple cloud providers, private clouds and on-prem multi-datacenter deployments. Instead of having many point-to-point connections between sites, the Confluent Platform provides an integrated event streaming architecture with frictionless data replication between sites.

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Erik Bernhardsson

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Maybe because of the value of lock-in, they could even subsidize the development of Redshift and make up the money through other products. 5 And what does that mean for other cloud products? A lot of the successful cloud products started out as internal services. What if… ? They all ask: What's your cloud vendor?

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Confluent

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

This structure worked well for production training and deployment of many models but left a lot to be desired in terms of overhead, flexibility, and ease of use, especially during early prototyping and experimentation [where Notebooks and Python shine]. Impedance mismatch between data scientists, data engineers and production engineers.

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Confluent

AUGUST 27, 2019

We are excited to announce the release of Confluent Cloud Schema Registry in general availability (GA), available in Confluent Cloud , our fully managed event streaming service based on Apache Kafka ®. Before we dive into Confluent Cloud Schema Registry, let’s recap what Confluent Schema Registry is and does.

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DataRobot

MARCH 10, 2022

DataRobot and Snowflake Jointly Unleash Human and Machine Intelligence Across the Industrial Enterprise Landscape. Train, Compare, Rank, Validate, and Select Models for Production. After a model has been selected for production, most data science teams are faced with the question of “now what?”

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Confluent

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Following on from How to Work with Apache Kafka in Your Spring Boot Application , which shows how to get started with Spring Boot and Apache Kafka ® , here I will demonstrate how to enable usage of Confluent Schema Registry and Avro serialization format in your Spring Boot applications. Confluent Platform 5.3 Confluent Platform 5.3

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CIO

MARCH 6, 2024

SAP is executing on a roadmap that brings an important semantic layer to enterprise data, and creates the critical foundation for implementing AI-based use cases,” said analyst Robert Parker, SVP of industry, software, and services research at IDC. Nearly every customer has an information architecture that expands beyond SAP.

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Honeycomb

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

It also represents the last workload we had to make architecture-agnostic—each service at Honeycomb is now capable of running at production scale across both amd64 and arm64 platforms. Kafka as a managed service also exists in the form of Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK) , Confluent Cloud , and others.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Startup culture is informal, which is why some workers end up with job titles like “customer delight manager” or “product whisperer.” Before he became a partner at Battery Ventures, Bill Binch was chief revenue officer at Pendo, a product analytics app. Choose your job title before you name your startup.

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Apiumhub

APRIL 18, 2019

Bulletproof Java Enterprise Applications for The Hard Production Life by Sebastian Daschner. Kai Waehner – Technology Evangelist for Confluent. Antonio López Zapata – Technical Product Owner at Schibsted. We can’t wait to attend them all: Best practices in a modern (microservices) environment by Alvaro García.

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Confluent

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Among these are Confluent Schema Registry , which ensures the right message structure, and KSQL for continuous stream processing on data streams, such as filtering, transformations, and aggregations using simple SQL commands. The article Apache Kafka vs. Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) – Friends, Enemies or Frenemies?

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

The desire to extract value from enterprise data has only grown as the pandemic prompts organizations to digitize their operations. Last September, SingleStore , which provides a platform to help enterprises integrate, monitor and query their data as a single entity, raised $80 million in a financing round. billion post-money.

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CIO

MARCH 8, 2023

SAP’s Data Warehouse Cloud is evolving, gaining new features and a new name, Datasphere, as the company addresses continued diversification of the enterprise data. It’s part of SAP’s move to become a more significant player in the business data fabric space, said Irfan Khan, SAP’s chief product officer for its HANA database and analytics.

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Cloudera

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Recently, Confluent hosted Current 2023 (formerly Kafka summit) in San Jose on Sept 26th and 27th. More of a Confluent conference now than a kafka conference. Expecting a product to be GA’d. The big announcement everyone was waiting for was the unveiling of Apache Flink in Confluent Cloud.

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Confluent

MARCH 4, 2019

This case study is based off real, concrete war stories, and will detail how Confluent Cloud was a key enabler for their digital strategy, unfolding new ways to capitalize on their product and differentiate their business, by leveraging the power of Apache Kafka and the cloud at the same time. Perfect balance with Confluent Cloud.

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Bernd Rucker

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

How and why to bring workflow to Apache Kafka In the last year I had a lot of contact with the community around Kafka and Confluent (the company behind Apache Kafka)?—?a Some have Kafka in production already, at the heart of their company. Probably that’s why Kafka and Confluent feel so much like soul mates to me.

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Confluent

MAY 8, 2019

Environment separation: For example, one cluster for production, another for non-production environments such as staging, UAT and development. Confluent Control Center enables you to work with multiple clusters of each. Check out part 1 of this series how Confluent Control Center can be used to interact with the Schema Registry.

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Confluent

JUNE 26, 2019

The main reason why Apache Kafka became the de facto standard for microservices is its combination of three powerful concepts: Publish and subscribe to streams of events, similar to a message queue or enterprise messaging system. Store streams of events in a fault-tolerant way. Process streams of events in real time, as they occur.

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Battery Ventures

MARCH 3, 2021

Selling software today is about maximizing the distribution potential of a product. MongoDB pioneered this strategy: When it went public in 2017, the company showcased the power of its community by reporting in SEC filings that its product had been downloaded 30 million times and was being used by over 4,300 customers.

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Confluent

MAY 22, 2019

Enterprises typically accumulate large amounts of data over time from different sources and data types, such as IoT devices and microservices applications. Kafka is enterprise ready, and has powerful features like high availability (HA) and replication on commodity hardware. Demo of Scylla and Confluent integration.

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Crunchbase News

JANUARY 3, 2024

Enterprise tech and cybersecurity Arctic Wolf : Late in 2022, the Eden Prairie, Minnesota-based cybersecurity company raised $401 million in convertible notes led by existing investor Owl Rock Capital. To that end, the 5-year-old company has raised $386 million to date, including a $166 million May Series C led by New Enterprise Associates.

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Altexsoft

OCTOBER 21, 2022

It enables enterprises to segregate workloads by data types, isolate processes to meet specific security requirements, or make configurations to support particular use cases. A common number of replicas set for production is three but you can tune it as you wish. Confluent , founded by Kafka’s authors. Multiple Kafka vendors.

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Confluent

MAY 15, 2019

But these legacy warehouses were slow to ship from and couldn’t keep up with more modern inventory management strategies, including same-day dropshipping or bringing the product physically to their customers’ locations using industrial vending. So we chose to use the Confluent Platform and specifically KSQL to curate our streams of data.

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Confluent

JULY 31, 2019

Delivers the new Confluent Operator for cloud-native automation on Kubernetes, a redesigned Confluent Control Center user interface to simplify how you manage event streams, and a preview of Role-Based Access Control for enterprise-grade security. To solve these challenges, Confluent Platform 5.3

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Apiumhub

APRIL 9, 2019

Kai Waehner – Technology Evangelist for Confluent. Pere Urbon-Bayes – Technology Architect @ Confluent. Speakers: Yan Cui – Author of the “Production-ready Serverless” book. Sebastian Daschner – Java Champion, Lead Java Developer Advocate at IBM. & many others… 2. Fullstack Fest .

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Confluent

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Go from zero to production on Apache Kafka ® without talking to sales reps or building infrastructure. There is fantastic news if you’re just coming up to speed on Kafka: we are eliminating these challenges and lowering the entry barrier for Kafka by making Kafka serverless and offering Confluent Cloud for free*. Kafka made serverless.

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Confluent

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Luckily for on-premises scenarios, a myriad of deployment options are available, such as the Confluent Platform which can be deployed on bare metal, virtual machines, containers, etc. Before Confluent Cloud was announced , a managed service for Apache Kafka did not exist. But deployment is just the tip of the iceberg.

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Confluent

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Robust data governance support through Schema Validation on write is now supported in Confluent Platform 5.4-preview. This gives operators a centralized location to enforce data format correctness within Confluent Platform. To allow Schema Validation on write, Confluent Server must be schema aware. Take schemas as an example.

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Confluent

AUGUST 19, 2019

Recently, Confluent introduced a revised Verified Integrations Program to support the goal of supplementing connectors provided by Confluent with high-quality and well-vetted integrations from partners. Partner interest in integrating with other aspects of the Confluent Platform besides sources and sinks has grown as well.

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Confluent

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Confluent MQTT Proxy , which ingests data from IoT devices without needing a MQTT broker. Confluent REST Proxy for a simple but powerful HTTP-based integration. Before I discuss these in more detail, let’s take a look at some common use cases where Confluent Platform and Confluent Cloud are used for IoT projects today.

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Confluent

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In part 1 of this series, we developed an understanding of event-driven architectures and determined that the event-first approach allows us to model the domain in addition to building decoupled, scalable and enterprise-wide systems that can evolve. Hence, I developed the Faas principles above. What is next for FaaS?

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Confluent

APRIL 2, 2019

Includes free forever Confluent Platform on a single Apache Kafka ® broker, improved Control Center functionality at scale and hybrid cloud streaming. We are very excited to announce the general availability of Confluent Platform 5.2, Confluent Platform 5.2 At Confluent, we believe in the power of free and open software.

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Confluent

AUGUST 14, 2019

Before Confluent Platform 5.3, Confluent Platform 5.3 It extends the security capabilities originally introduced in KIP-226 for brokers and KIP-297 for Kafka Connect, and provides additional functionality for encrypting the secrets across all of Confluent Platform. Before you start: Download Confluent Platform 5.3.

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Confluent

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Distributed object (RPC sync), service-oriented architecture (SOA), enterprise service bus (ESB), event-driven architecture (EDA), reactive programming to microservices and now FaaS have each built on the learnings of the previous. Data evolution. The future of programming. Event-driven architecture. Other articles in this series.

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