Confluent Platform 5.2, announced at Kafka Summit in NYC, adds a free license for single-broker Kafka clusters, feature parity for non-Java SDKs, enhancements to Confluent Control Center and ...

Confluent Platform 5.0, based on yesterday's release of open source Kafka 2.0, adds enterprise security, new disaster recovery capabilities, lots of developer features, and important IoT support.

They have emerged from the Kafka community and from Confluent for that very reason. It is nearly impossible to be proficient enough in each of these areas to build a solution that does not require ...

Kafka itself is now used by seven of the world’s 10 largest banks and eight of the top 10 insurance companies. Confluent has been growing rapidly, with 700% percent bookings growth for 2016, its ...

Confluent raised a $50 million funding round in March and has raised $80 million to-date. Kafka was originally created at LinkedIn and moved into the open source community.

Kafka has a nearly 39% market share in the fragmented queueing, messaging and background processing market, according to 6sense Insights Inc. It’s used by more than 80% of Fortune 100 companies.

Open-source unicorn Confluent Inc. is ready to go head-to-head with cloud computing giants with the release of a cloud-native and fully managed service based upon the Apache Kafka streaming platform.

Support for Iceberg within Confluent Cloud enables customers to convert Kafka topics, associated schemas, and metadata to Iceberg tables with a single click, which enables it to better support ...