IBM will acquire Confluent to address growing needs for real-time data in AI models

Confluent sells an enterprise version of the open-source Kafka data streaming platform, which it said is used by 80% of the ...
Seeking Alpha

Confluent: The Data Streaming Leader

Confluent, Inc.'s user markets for data streaming have a long runway ahead. Open source Apache Kafka is ubiquitously used for data streaming. Confluent's wheelhouse is scalable data ...
InfoWorld

Why data contracts need Apache Kafka and Apache Flink

Data contracts are foundational to properly designed and well behaved data pipelines. Kafka and Flink provide the key ...
SiliconANGLE

Confluent simplifies integration between Kafka stream processing and Iceberg storage

Confluent Inc. today announced new features in its cloud service that make it easier for users of its Apache Kafka-based streaming engine to store data in the Apache Iceberg table format. The ...
InfoQ

Expedia Uses WebSockets and Kafka to Query Near Real-Time Streaming Data

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Real-Time Data Streaming Fight Against Fake News

Real-time data streaming, using systems like Apache Kafka and smart models (NLP), detects misinformation instantly and ...
The Next Platform

IBM Broadens Its Enterprise Software Stack With Confluent Buy

This year, about 45 percent of the revenues at Big Blue will come from software. But IBM wants to push this up to half of ...