Confluent Blog

I’m happy to announce Confluent will be hosting another Kafka Summit Hackathon on May 7th in New York City! The free hackathon will take place a day prior to Kafka

Strata + Hadoop World kicks off in NYC from September 26-29, 2016 and will feature sessions and tutorials on the future of data. Naturally, Confluent will be there with speaking

At the beginning of June several Confluent team members attended Berlin Buzzwords 2016, where we gave three talks focused on stream processing and distributed computing. These talks, which we summarize

I’m pleased to announce the launch of Confluent University: world-class Apache Kafka training now available both onsite and at public venues. Although we’ve been offering onsite training to our customers

Many of today’s most popular Big Data software projects such as Apache Hadoop and Apache Kafka are managed under the umbrella of the Apache Software Foundation. Hence a formidable way

There has been much renewed interest in using log-centric architectures to scale distributed systems that provide efficient durability and high availability. In this approach, a collection of distributed servers can

It is my pleasure to announce that Confluent has raised a Series B funding of $24M, led by Index Ventures and joined by our Series A investor, Benchmark. Mike Volpi

Some of us from Confluent will be speaking at QCon NYC next week about Apache Kafka and Confluent’s stream data platform. Here are some things to look forward to from

I was at ApacheCon 2015 in Austin, Texas a couple of weeks ago. The following is a short summary of some of the trends that I observed at the conference.

Today I’m excited to announce that Neha Narkhede, Jun Rao, and I are forming a start-up called Confluent around realtime data and the open source project Apache Kafka that we