Use Cases
Data Products, Data Contracts, and Change Data Capture
Change data capture is a popular method to connect database tables to data streams, but it comes with drawbacks. The next evolution of the CDC pattern, first-class data products, provide resilient pipelines that support both real-time and batch processing while isolating upstream systems...
Introducing Confluent Cloud Freight Clusters
Learn how the latest innovations in Kora enable us to introduce new Confluent Cloud Freight clusters, which can save you up to 90% at GBps+ scale. Confluent Cloud Freight clusters are now available in Early Access.
Contributing to Apache Kafka®: How to Write a KIP
Learn how to contribute to open source Apache Kafka by writing Kafka Improvement Proposals (KIPs) that solve problems and add features! Read on for real examples.
Migrating Kafka to the Cloud: How Skai Went From 90K to 1.8K Topics
Skai completely revamped its interactive, ad-campaign dashboard by adding Apache Kafka and an in-memory database—eventually moving the solution to Confluent Cloud. Once on the Cloud, they devised an ingenious architecture for reducing the number of topics they needed.
Confluent’s Customer Zero: Building a Real-Time Alerting System With Confluent Cloud and Slack
Turning events into outcomes at scale is not easy! It starts with knowing what events are actually meaningful to your business or customer’s journey and capturing them. At Confluent, we have a good sense of what these critical events or moments are.
How To Automatically Detect PII for Real-Time Cyber Defense
Our new PII Detection solution enables you to securely utilize your unstructured text by enabling entity-level control. Combined with our suite of data governance tools, you can execute a powerful real-time cyber defense strategy.
How Walmart Uses Apache Kafka for Real-Time Replenishment at Scale
Walmart’s global presence, with its vast number of retail stores plus its robust and rapidly growing e-commerce business, make it one of the most challenging retail companies on the planet […]
From the Cellar to the Cloud – How Aedifion is Driving Next-Generation Building Automation with Confluent
It is no exaggeration that a lot is going wrong in commercial buildings today. The building and construction sector consumes 36% of global final energy and accounts for almost 40% […]
Building a Dependable Real-Time Betting App with Confluent Cloud and Ably
Our everyday digital experiences are in the midst of a revolution. Customers increasingly expect their online experiences to be interactive, immersive, and real time by default. The need to satisfy […]
How Storyblocks Enabled a New Class of Event-Driven Microservices with Confluent
In many ways, Storyblocks’ technical journey has mirrored that of most other startups and disruptors: Start small and as simple as possible (i.e., with a PHP monolith) Watch the company […]
Using ksqlDB for Real-Time Lead Management and Reporting at Leadnomics
How do you continuously process half a terabyte of data in real time? That’s the exact question we had to answer. Leadnomics is a digital marketing company that helps companies […]
Extracting Value from IoT Using Azure Cosmos DB, Azure Synapse Analytics, and Confluent Cloud
Today, an organization’s strategic objective is to deliver innovations for a connected life and to improve the quality of life worldwide. With connected devices comes data, and with data comes […]
Driving New Integrations with Confluent and ksqlDB at ACERTUS
When companies need help with their vehicle fleets—including transport, storage, or renewing expired registrations—they don’t want to have to deal with multiple vehicle logistics providers. For these companies, ACERTUS provides […]
Saxo Bank’s Best Practices for a Distributed Domain-Driven Architecture Founded on the Data Mesh
Al data til folket (all data to the people) is a compelling proposition in an enterprise context. Yet the ability to quickly address integration challenges and deliver data to those […]
Detecting Patterns of Behaviour in Streaming Maritime AIS Data with Confluent
This is part two in a blog series on streaming a feed of AIS maritime data into Apache Kafka® using Confluent and how to apply it for a variety of […]
Streaming ETL and Analytics on Confluent with Maritime AIS Data
One of the canonical examples of streaming data is tracking location data over time. Whether it’s ride-sharing vehicles, the position of trains on the rail network, or tracking airplanes waking […]
Using kafka-merge-purge to Deal with Failure in an Event-Driven System at FLYERALARM
Failures are inevitable in any system, and there are various options for mitigating them automatically. This is made possible by event-driven applications leveraging Apache Kafka® and built with fault tolerance […]