.Confluent has raised $125 million at a $2.5 billion valuation. We did that while doubling the team and growing our subscription bookings 3.5x YoY in 2018. Extremely excited for the next few years for us and proud of the team that got us here 🙌 forbes.com/sites/alexkonr…

This is Confluent in a nutshell. Only 4 years since we started the company. We’re the fastest growing enterprise company Sequoia, Benchmark, Index has seen! 📈

1/ Company proposes ambitious, seemingly unrealistic, plan. Board member makes “if you do that, I'll eat my hat” type comment which leads to a silly bet. Company obliterates plan. CEO shaves board member's head. I'm the board member. @Confluentinc the company.

Stoked to announce our partnership with Google to make Confluent Cloud—our fully managed offering of Apache Kafka—available as a native offering on Google Cloud Platform cnfl.io/confluent-clou…

Boom! Congrats to our CEO and co-founder, Jay Kreps, for being a 2019 Glassdoor Top CEO! Of course, we've known all along 🤩🏆gldr.co/CEOs #TopCEOs

This is cool: Confluent made it onto the front of the Nasdaq building for coming in #10 on the Cloud 100 ranking.

The "first run" experience is one of the most underrated, yet important, investments for creating software that people actually use. I took the Confluent Cloud for a spin, and was able to provision and test my managed Apache Kafka instance in minutes. seroter.wordpress.com/2019/10/01/mes…

Tiered Storage is now available in preview in Confluent Platform 5.4! Read the blog by Lucas Bradstreet @ghaz.bsky.social, Dhruvil Shah, and Manveer Chawla to learn about how and why we built this feature and the kinds of use cases it unlocks: cnfl.io/infinite-stora…

One of the most impressive parts of Confluent's tiered storage is that it's completely seamless - something that's been historically hard to achieve. No background jobs, no special clients, no hacky segment copying - simply Kafka with infinite storage. confluent.io/blog/infinite-…

Scale from zero to 1 PB of data effortlessly with unlimited storage in Confluent Cloud (available soon). See it in action with this demo by Tim Berglund from #ProjectMetamorphosis! youtu.be/eRsPuXRw09o

Confluent Platform 6.0 is now available! This is one of our biggest releases yet. New capabilities make Apache Kafka more cloud-native w/greater elasticity, improved cost-effectiveness, infinite data retention, and global availability. See what’s new here: cnfl.io/announcing-con…

Take the first glimpse of what a ZooKeeper-less Apache Kafka will look like! Ben Stopford and Ismael Juma explore the system’s event-driven design, scalability improvements, and key operational characteristics running up to 2 million partitions: cnfl.io/kafka-without-…

🔔 Ringing the bell at Nasdaq! We’re incredibly proud of our team, and thankful for our customers, partners, #ApacheKafka community, and everyone who made this day possible. This is only the beginning of our journey to set the world’s #datainmotion. #ConfluentIPO

Learn how durability auditing is used to proactively detect data integrity issues on over 8 trillion Apache Kafka messages per day in Confluent Cloud. Check out Rohit, Alok Thatikunta & Marc ⛅️'s blog on durability auditing: cnfl.io/how-confluent-…

We slipped some exciting Confluent Cloud news under the radar. If you are on AWS us-east-1 and want to shrink your Kafka cluster, go ahead: docs.confluent.io/cloud/current/… First cloud Kafka to support transparent one-click shrinking! In the next 3 weeks, we'll roll it everywhere.

:) To clarify, I still think Confluent Cloud is the right managed Apache Kafka for everyone. I planned on using AWS for everything else :)

Confluent 🤝 Elasticity Companies today expect more from their data infrastructure. To meet the demand of these data pipelines, we took Apache Kafka’s scalability up to the next level (ok, multiple levels 😉) Learn how Confluent Cloud scales 10x faster cnfl.io/3Gy9rRb

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Republican Sen. Mike Lee, 2019: “two immigrants, one from India and the other from Germany, with the exact same skills, the exact same degrees” “The German might wait 12 months, while the Indian applicant will almost certainly wait a decade or far more” It’s now over 90 years.

I’m excited to share that our paper @ConfluentInc, "Kora: A Cloud-Native Event Streaming Platform For Kafka" was awarded the Best Industry Paper at VLDB 2025 🇬🇧 out of 29 accepted papers in the Industry track. 🎉 Let's take a look at the details of the paper (a thread 🧵)