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Two features make WarpStream the fastest, most reliable diskless Kafka product. ⚡️ Lightning Topics: Ultra-low produce latency with a p50 of 33ms. 🪂 Ripcord Mode: Continue processing produce requests when the Control Plane is unavailable. warpstream.com/blog/the-art-o…

🆕 Life Is But A Stream! Brandon Brown and Manan Monga from @security_score join @thedatagiant to share how their engineering team built a platform where Apache Kafka is the single source of truth, Protobuf is the shared language, and Apache Flink pipelines deliver enriched intelligence in near real-time. Tune in: cnfl.io/4tnoB32

AI agents fail without context. If your data is siloed, your agents are just guessing. Join us on April 7th and learn how you can combine Confluent + @IBM to build a strong foundation for reliable, context-rich AI. Register here: cnfl.io/40WmUxk

Forrester recognized Confluent as a Leader in Streaming Data Platforms in 2025. Explore the Forrester Wave™ through our lens, with a new Confluent-authored introduction connecting the findings to today’s real-time and AI-driven landscape. 👉 cnfl.io/4t3xZbB

Break up with self-managed Kafka complexity 💔 Join our live workshop and learn how to migrate to Confluent Cloud, without downtime, data loss, or breaking your existing architecture. Register now: cnfl.io/4byQ3Dk

Kafka Summit has evolved. Data streaming is no longer just about the pipe, it's about the entire ecosystem. Take a dive deep into Apache Kafka, Apache Flink, Iceberg, and the future of real-time AI in our session catalog. If you’re still thinking about data in batches, you’re already behind. Early Bird pricing ends March 29th. Register now to secure your spot: cnfl.io/4cb7KuT

Many AI initiatives stall not because of models, but because of data. Watch this on-demand webinar to learn: • Why batch architectures slow AI down • Where teams struggle to scale streaming • How real-time data enables real business impact Watch it now on demand -> cnfl.io/3ZYyx64

Kafka isn't a database, but we gave it a query engine anyway. Introducing WarpStream Events: 📈 Search and visualize Agent logs, ACL decisions, and pipeline execution logs ⚒️ No more wrangling multiple tools ☑️ Get built-in observability with zero ops warpstream.com/blog/warpstrea…

Registration for our Agentic AI Streamposium is open! This exclusive virtual event is designed for developers, architects, and data engineers looking for hands-on experience building real-time, context-rich AI agents. Sound like you? Save your spot here, and we’ll see you April 9th → cnfl.io/470krp4

Don’t let missing context be the reason your AI project fails. Get your copy of our 🆕 context engineering eBook, where you’ll learn to master context engineering to deliver fresh context for reliable AI: cnfl.io/4sMDtaL

How many tools does it take to debug one Kafka issue? Metrics in one place. Logs in another. Traces somewhere else. Custom lag scripts on the side. Fragmented monitoring doesn’t just slow you down… it inflates your Kafka TCO. We break down the hidden costs (and what to do instead): cnfl.io/3ZOLAqW

It’s official! @IBM has closed its acquisition of Confluent. Together, we’ll deliver a smart data platform built to support enterprise AI at scale. Learn more here: confluent.io/press-release/…

🌟 Meet our Catalyst of the Week, Shruti! Shruti is a familiar face in the data streaming community, sparking curiosity around the latest Apache Kafka® topics at Bangalore Kafka, Data, and Streams meetups. Beyond speaking, Shruti also shares her knowledge through insightful blogs on Kafka, helping grow and engage the community. Thanks for everything you do for the community, Shruti! 🙌 👉 Learn more about our Catalyst program here. cnfl.io/3MwRTwp

Batch ELT was built for a slower era. At enterprise scale, it turns into a "spaghetti mess" of duplicate pipelines and unpredictable costs. 🍝 Stop throwing compute at the problem. Learn how a streaming-first architecture uses a "write once, read anywhere" model to slash TCO and make your data AI-ready: cnfl.io/4dlsAIp

🔷 Vector Search now supports @AzureCosmosDB! Give your AI agents a live pulse on your business instead of a stale snapshot. From instant topics-to-tables to fresh context for RAG, see what’s possible with our data streaming platform on @Azure: cnfl.io/3PeB8qv

Azure users, ICYMI: 🔷 Tableflow is now GA on Microsoft @Azure! No more manual ETL, turn Apache Kafka topics into Iceberg tables with one click.

Want to see us schematize your Apache Kafka data? Want to see us do it again? We just made going from dumb pipes to smart, governed data planes even faster with support for storing schema IDs in Apache Kafka headers! Learn how you can schematize your existing topics in minutes without breaking legacy consumers or changing payload formats. 👉 cnfl.io/4rTCXXS

🚨Happening next week! On March 18, our hands-on workshop will guide you to go from Apache Kafka topics to Delta tables + AI agents. We’ll walk you through implementing an end-to-end, streaming-to-AI insight data pipeline. Sign up: cnfl.io/3NapWKW

Kafka rebalancing at small scale: annoying. Kafka rebalancing at enterprise scale: expensive. As clusters grow, rebalances can stretch from minutes → hours → days… with bigger risk windows and bigger resource spikes.This breakdown covers what’s really happening behind the scenes (and how to avoid the worst of it). Read the blog -> cnfl.io/3OX1hdc