The 2026 Data Streaming Report is here! We asked 4.5K+ IT leaders how they’re accelerating AI adoption, unlocking business value from data, and competing in an increasingly real-time world. The results are in. Check out the findings → https://cnfl.io/4vffp1K

Every enterprise has a data monster. And a way to take control. From AI to analytics, supercharge innovation with reusable, reliable, real-time data on The World’s Data Streaming Platform. 👉 https://cnfl.io/4apaLWz

Stop chasing data across tools and start acting on what actually matters. Meet Customer Intelligence Hub: a real-time, AI-powered view of your customer accounts. Here’s how we’re using it internally as Customer Zero: https://cnfl.io/4nZCR0b

We’re taking the Data Streaming World Tour to you! 🫵 Missed a chance to join us in person? Great news: our next stop is the World Wide Web. Catch a keynote on building intelligent systems, a fireside chat with Focal Systems, a session from Databricks, and more on June 10: https://cnfl.io/4wiaq18

Back at Current NOLA, we introduced Confluent Private Cloud and promised an infrastructure cost reduction of up to 50%. Today, we’re proving that claim with hard data and extending CPC with broker-native multi-tenancy that eliminates cluster sprawl at the root. → https://cnfl.io/4dPC6TY #Current26

Trust us, data monsters are easier to wrangle when they're small. At #Current26 London? Stop by the booth to snag a data monster plushie of your own!

Live from the #Current26 London keynote: We’re moving Confluent Intelligence into its next phase with the GA launch of our Real-Time Context Engine and Streaming Agents, expanded agent operations and skills, more model support, and new ML functions. Learn more: https://cnfl.io/4wyr3pL

We’re making AI-ready streaming accessible across the data, pipelines, and ops that your teams already manage and the workflows they’re already familiar with. Here’s what’s new in our latest Confluent Cloud launch, coming to you live from #Current26 London! ⤵️

Great news: #Current26 London is less than a week away! Even better news: The party won’t stop after we wrap up at the Excel. 👀 Current is coming to San Francisco this November! Register your interest and get ready to be the first into the future. 👉 https://cnfl.io/42Nhk1f

Don’t just hear about the future. Join us in building it! At the #Current26 London keynote, Jay Kreps, Shaun Clowes, Can Sözeri from Getir, and industry thought leaders will show how data streaming powers AI with shift-left strategies, live demos, and real-world wins. 👉 https://cnfl.io/4cZXrJV

Simpler to Build On. Simpler to Run. Confluent Platform 8.2 is here! Built on Apache Kafka 4.2, this update extends and simplifies what you can do with Kafka and Apache Flink.

All technical. All data. All. Day. Long. Thanks to everyone who joined us at our first-ever #underCurrent in San Francisco!

Two features make WarpStream the fastest, most reliable diskless Kafka product available. ⚡️ ️Lightning Topics: Ultra-low produce latency with a p50 of 33ms and p99 of 50ms. 🪂 Ripcord Mode: Continue processing produce requests even when the Control Plane is unavailable. buff.ly/PaAaxH6

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 www.warpstream.com/blog/warpstr...

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 → https://cnfl.io/4bM5l9d

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: www.confluent.io/press-releas...

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

Queues for Kafka is now GA on Confluent Cloud and Confluent Platform! 🎉 Native queue semantics, elastic consumer scaling, and per-message acks and nacks on #ApacheKafka so you can consolidate streaming + queuing. Learn more: https://cnfl.io/3N2h6ic

Current 26 Registration is officially OPEN! 🪅 We’re bringing the global data streaming community to London this May. 🇬🇧 Two days of networking, innovation, technical deep dives, and hands-on workshops with some very special guests! Early Bird pricing available now 👉 https://cnfl.io/4savLXF

Important updates just landed across the Apache Kafka client ecosystem. Async support for Python is now GA, improved Avro support for Schema Registry and more. These updates make it easier to run Kafka clients reliably in production. Check them out below! ⤵️

Apache Kafka migrations can be as easy as Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V. (Or Cmd+C, Cmd+V for the 🍎 crowd.) Learn how Kafka Copy Paste, our new open-source CLI tool, streamlines migration from hosted Kafka to Confluent Cloud by eliminating 70% of the manual work you'd usually expect: https://cnfl.io/4tXyLZ2

We're making it even easier to enable agent collaboration, detect complex anomalies, bring more vector stores into your RAG workflows, and standardize how your agents tap into real-time data. 🤖 Catch up on everything new in Confluent Intelligence: https://cnfl.io/3OPli5v

No matter what you’re tackling, today’s Confluent Cloud launch is built for you. 💙 Struggling to unify queues and streams? Queues for Kafka support is here! Bracing for a lengthy migration? Shrink that timeline with Kafka Copy Paste.

Registration officially opens NEXT WEEK for #Current26 London. Mark your calendars and get ready 🏁 Sign up for the "First to Know" list here 👉 https://cnfl.io/3Ovo4Nh

Looking to learn about Apache Iceberg and Tableflow? Our 🆕 14-module course hosted by @tlberglund.bsky.social covers how Iceberg brings transactions, time travel, and painless schema evolution to petabyte-scale data lakes. Get started: https://cnfl.io/4c07BdH

Learn how Python developers build real-time AI agents using MCP, Kafka, and Flink—modern agentic workflows explained on HackerNoon. #pythonmcpaiagents

⏱️ Disaster recovery in less than a minute. 🆕 on the Confluent Blog: Check out this step-by-step proof-of-concept for orchestrating an Apache Kafka client failover using Confluent Cloud Gateway and Cluster Linking. 👉 https://cnfl.io/3MCac33

It’s here! The 2nd Edition of The Ultimate Data Streaming Guide has arrived. AI is only as good as the data behind it. Stale data from yesterday's ETL job won’t cut it for agentic systems. Discover why data streaming is the real-time foundation for AI in this new book: https://cnfl.io/3O03c0b

Cloud API Keys vs. Resource-Specific API Keys What’s the difference? When should you pick one over the other? Get a breakdown of the scope of access granted by the two key types on Confluent Cloud and the best practices for service accounts + production security: https://cnfl.io/4qIu9nB

🆕 on the Confluent Blog! Learn how #ConfluentForStartups member Thunai built an agentic AI platform for automating and enhancing customer support, achieving 70–80% L1 support deflection and cutting resolution time from hours to minutes. Read it here: https://cnfl.io/45VBnfG

Learn how to build a custom Apache Kafka connector from scratch with our 🆕 step-by-step guide! Head to our blog to find everything you need to know about Kafka Connect, why custom connectors are so important, and how you can build one to fit your unique integration needs: https://cnfl.io/3NlDG5p

Current is the definitive place to gather with the people who know just how transformative data streaming is. Today, that transformation is picking up speed, & the tent is getting bigger. To reflect that, we’re making a few changes to our event line-up this year: https://cnfl.io/4pIdW0z #current26

Batch dashboards = missed opportunities. Real-time dashboards = instant action. Our latest blog shows you how to go from raw data streams to actionable dashboards with Apache Kafka®. Learn how 👉 https://cnfl.io/3IPxxfM

Discover how an incremental migration strategy can modernize your data estate, reduce costs and unlock the real-time context your AI models need. Thanks to @confluent.io

The biggest cost of a DIY data streaming platform? Your engineers’ time. Cluster maintenance ≠ product innovation. See how a data streaming platform’s TCO really breaks down → https://cnfl.io/4qgcrHY

AI agents are only as good as the context they run on. Don’t let them fall short due to stale, siloed data and unscalable frameworks. Learn how you can use Confluent and Databricks to build the foundation your agents need to learn, act, and adapt at scale! 👉 https://cnfl.io/3N9IvP9

AI is about to put massive pressure on enterprise data systems. Want to get ahead of it? Join us on January 15 as they unpack 2026’s top data & AI predictions and show how teams can modernize architecture before AI forces the change. Register here → https://cnfl.io/3YVypUq

Join us for a free webinar on January 14 at noon CST. Learn about our diskless architecture and: 💸 How we reduce costs by 80+%. 🔐 Our zero-access security approach. 📈 High-throughput customers. ☁️ How WarpStream runs in your own cloud. Register 👉 buff.ly/yAxGGJW

❗ Its the final countdown❗ Attention Data Streamers: Time is running out to submit your proposals for #Current26 London! The window closes Sunday, Jan 11, at 11:58 PM GMT. More information here 👉 https://cnfl.io/4aK8GWq

2025 was the year enterprises learned to build with AI. (https://cnfl.io/4avQsro) 2026 will be the year they learn to operate as AI-powered organizations. Sean Falconer and Will LaForest predict ✋ key changes that will define AI-fueled enterprises this year: https://cnfl.io/3YYEEH8

Important updates just landed across the Apache Kafka® client ecosystem. With KIP-848 generally available, simplified OAuth-based cloud auth, and better metrics and tooling across languages, these updates make it easier to run Kafka clients reliably in production. -> https://cnfl.io/4pXIUTe

Discover how we're improving Kafka Connect with better observability, security, migrations, and connector flexibility—making data integration easier to scale. Check out our blog now ⬇️ https://cnfl.io/45pAbkm

Turning data into revenue sounds simple… until you try to process massive volumes of events continuously and keep financial-grade consistency. This new guide walks through how to design a low-latency monetization engine using Kafka and Flink. Check it out now ➡️ https://cnfl.io/3Y3WTL6

Check out @itpro.com discussion around our Quick Thinking research earlier this year. The piece highlights why the next generation of leaders must be intentional about diversity and agile in their decision-making.

The future of online shopping won’t happen primarily on websites. It’ll happen through personal, AI agents that can browse, compare, and recommend products to shoppers. 🛍️ So, what does that mean for retailers? Read @seanfalconer.bsky.social's new article in Total Retail to find out. ⤵️

🏆 Confluent Cloud won an @infoworld.bsky.social Technology of the Year Award in the Data Management: Streaming category! ​This win wouldn’t have been possible without our team. Thank you and congratulations on this achievement! Learn how we’re simplifying real-time data use for AI and analytics. ⤵️

Learn how Tableflow converts data to Apache Iceberg or Delta Lake format, and how it can be integrated with Amazon Redshift to query and analyze customer activity snapshots! ⤵️ Dive into our full CDC demo here: https://cnfl.io/4ppcOQ6

The infrastructure that powered the last decade of digital business wasn't designed for context-hungry AI agents.​ 2026 will separate companies that treat AI as a side project from those that rebuild their architectures to support it. Explore 6️⃣ shifts that'll define next year in @thenewstack.io ⤵️

@sandonjacobs.bsky.social is back at the lightboard to introduce KIP-932 - “Queues for Kafka,” unpacking how this new cooperative consumption model enables consumer scaling beyond traditional partition limits via message-level acknowledgement. Watch it here 👉 https://cnfl.io/4956fwe

Turkish ultra-fast grocery delivery service Getir sees a 70% reduction in database costs by implementing Confluent Cloud as a centralized data streaming platform. Read the full story here: https://cnfl.io/4iO8s2i