Confluent Blog

It’s an exciting day for Confluent, in the middle of a very unusual and difficult time in the larger world. Nonetheless, I thought it was important we share this news

As the impact of COVID-19 (coronavirus) continues to spread, our top priority is the health and well-being of our customers, employees, and community. We are acutely aware that these are

Every year on March 8th, Confluent is proud to celebrate International Women’s Day, a global holiday dedicated to honoring the accomplishments of women and advocating for gender equality around the

During the holiday season, it’s a particularly relevant time to pause, reflect, and celebrate, both the days past and those ahead. Here at Confluent, it’s a noticeably nostalgic moment, given

In 2011, Marc Andressen wrote an article called Why Software is Eating the World. The central idea is that any process that can be moved into software, will be. This

When people ask me the very top-level question “why do people use Kafka,” I usually lead with the story in my last post, where I talked about how Apache Kafka®

For me, and I think for you, technology is cool by itself. When you first learn how consistent hashing works, it’s fun. When you finally understand log-structured merge trees, it’s

A technology community is made up of people. Without people writing code, writing tutorials, welcoming newcomers, giving presentations, and answering questions, what we have is not a community, but just

Some years ago, when I was at LinkedIn, I didn’t really know what Apache Kafka® would become but had an inkling that the next generation of applications would not be

I’m excited to announce that Confluent has raised a $125M Series D funding round, led by Sequoia, with participation from our other major investors, Index Ventures and Benchmark. This builds