I could not be more excited to see this!

🎉 #KafkaSummit is headed back to London in 2024 and for the first time ever, Kafka Summit will be stopping in Bangalore, India!

Do you have a good story or #ApacheKafka use case to share? The Call for Papers is now open. Submit your abstract today ➡️ cnfl.io/46G6ASh

This is why Neon - Serverless Postgres we didn't invest in BYOC (bring your own cloud) and went the Snowflake route: database is a URL. Multi-tenancy is a huge deal
jack-vanlightly.com/blog/2023/9/25…

Did you hear? Apache Kafka 3.6 is now available! This release includes Tiered Storage (Early Access), the ability to migrate clusters from ZooKeeper to KRaft with no downtime, the addition of a grace period to stream-table joins, & more! Read highlights: brnw.ch/21wDqMU

A few weeks ago, Confluent and Pinecone partnered to unlock building real-time AI apps! 🚀

Say hello to the (Preview) Pinecone Sink Connector for Confluent Cloud:
✅ Converts data to vector embeddings using Azure OpenAI (optional)
✅ Stores embeddings in the Pinecone…

Claudia Goldin just won the Nobel in economics “for having advanced our understanding of women’s labour market outcomes”.

If you want to get an overview of the data, here is our page on the topic, to which she gave us extremely good feedback at the time:
ourworldindata.org/economic-inequ…

This is a pretty big deal. Missing queue semantics was a major thorn in our side WePay Engineering, and one of the main reasons we had other non-Kafka streaming systems (pubsub and redis, to name a few).

How (and why) Kafka is implementing efficient queue semantics. Now each Kafka topic will now be accessible as both a partitioned log and a queue.

That’s a wrap for #Current23 - Definitely in my top 3 all time conferences. So good to see so many familiar faces, hear and see good content and have great conversations. See you next time!

This is my AI rendition of a badass Apache Flink streaming squirrel.

It's not a 2023 tech conference until someone mentions #genAI ... #Current23

Missed the #Current23 opening keynote yesterday?

Stream it now to explore the past, present, and future of data streaming with Jay Kreps, Shaun Clowes, and leaders from NASA Goddard, WarnerBrothers, and Notion! ⬇️

youtu.be/gH2ST1Huv4k

Ismael Juma Martijn Visser Uber “Without @apacheKafka none of our customers would get a car” - Tobias Nothaft from BMW Group

Tobias joins us on stage to talk about BMW’s critical use cases running on @apacheKafka!

Queues for Kafka (KIP-932), my biggest ask for Apache Kafka since joining Confluent. Really excited about this one. It's not just queue semantics, but queues which can do replay.

We’re excited to join @ConfluentInc’s Data Streaming for AI initiative!

Through the Pinecone + Confluent integration, users can quickly and simply gain access to data streams from across their business to power real-time AI applications.

Learn more: hubs.ly/Q023nYtZ0.

The new end-to-end encryption feature is cool. Basically annotate sensitive fields in the schema registry and have the clients automatically encrypt those fields with customer-managed keys. Confluent cannot ever access that data.

Here we go, ready to disrupt the industry. The most exciting product I’ve ever worked on is entering the Open Preview! 😍 #Current23

Starting my day off with Jay Kreps at #current23 “Reality happens in real time.” So does business, but technology constraints forced us into batch paradigms. It’s beyond time to break that paradigm.

🤩 I'm very excited about this!
🙌 It's awesome to work with the Confluent team.

Really interesting breakdown of one of the key decisions in building a cloud data service by Jack Vanlightly. Long story short: there is a reason all the biggest and best cloud services (from S3 to Snowflake) aren't just puppeteering per-customer clusters in the customer VPCs.