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Apache Kafka®
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Getting Started with Apache Kafka® and Real-Time Data Streaming
Apache Kafka is the backbone of modern data and application architectures, enabling real-time data access for applications. Data streaming allows businesses to create responsive applications and connect systems, with use cases including stock trading, fraud detection, transportation, data integration, and real-time analytics. In this live demo, you’ll learn how companies leverage data streaming for transformation, the diverse use cases for Kafka, and the key technologies that combine with Kafka in Confluent’s Data Streaming Platform.
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Mastering Kafka Security across Hybrid Environments with Confluent Platform
In this webinar, you’ll learn about the latest security tools and features in Confluent Platform designed to protect your streaming Kafka data across on-premises or hybrid environments, so you can launch faster while upholding strict security and compliance requirements.
The Confluent Advantage
Learn how Confluent helps you unleash developer productivity, operate efficiently at scale, and meet all architectural requirements before moving Kafka into production. Experience why Confluent is the data streaming platform loved by Developers and trusted by Enterprises.
Cloud Native: 10x Apache Kafka® service powered by the Kora Engine
Join this webinar, where we’ll take you on a tour of how we re-architected the inner workings of Apache Kafka® to build Kora Engine. We’ll show you how Kora powers Confluent to abstract away all the operational burdens of self-managing Kafka with a truly cloud-native service that’s 10x better, faster, and easier to use.
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As teams inevitably get asked to do more with less, Confluent can help by significantly reducing infrastructure costs, DevOps burdens, and downtime risk to save you 25% or more versus managing Kafka in-house.
Top 4 Drivers of Kafka Costs (and How to Reduce Them)
In this webinar, we’ll help you understand the key drivers of Apache Kafka costs across infrastructure and development and operations. We’ll also cover how Confluent rearchitected Kafka to be much more cost-efficient with Confluent Cloud to save you time and money.
"Confluent's data streaming platform enables us to focus on driving innovation instead of spending time and resources on managing infrastructure. We get full support from Confluent to scale up or scale down during peak season or non-peak hours."
"Confluent’s data streaming platform increases our software engineering velocity. It helps us develop better products faster and more efficiently."
"Confluent's data streaming platform enables a scalable and performant architecture, bolstering Audacy's tech stack to better serve premium audio content to 200M+ monthly listeners."
"With Confluent’s fully managed data streaming platform, we can focus on the business needs, like governance and metrics."
“Confluent offers a complete, end-to-end data streaming platform with all the enterprise-grade capabilities we need to run mission-critical use cases. Over the last two years, we estimate they’ve helped us gain eight or nine months in terms of time-to-market for deploying Apache Kafka.”
“Things like spinning up Kafka clusters and getting prototypes up and running very quickly, Confluent has been really helpful there. Those sort of exercises might take a long time for my team to do if we were doing this on vanilla open source Kafka. With Confluent, we can turn that around very quickly.”