Nikki Haley telling lazy Silicon Valley companies that if we just avoided immigrants like they do in South Carolina, we could have a tech industry like theirs. I suspect she’s right! :-)

Better late than never, we finally released transaction support in WarpStream! As usual, we wrote a blog post explaining all the nitty gritty details. warpstream.com/blog/kafka-tra…

My thoughts on China, export controls and two possible futures darioamodei.com/on-deepseek-an…

Speculation is growing that Snowflake is planning to acquire Redpanda—but why? What justifies the rumored high price tag? When you consider market trends, the Snowflake vs. Databricks rivalry, and the AI shift, the rationale starts to become clear. Here’s my take.

Did you know Freight Clusters can slash your networking costs? Now generally available on AWS, this new cluster type helps you onboard more data-intensive workloads without breaking the bank. Learn more 👉 cnfl.io/4aM0HWx

New distributed systems protocol write-up! Virtual Consensus (Delos) heavily inspired the new architecture in Confluent’s Kora engine, powering Freight Clusters. This write-up dives into Virtual Consensus in Delos paper and why it makes sense as the default log replication

We’re excited to announce a major expansion in the Databricks + Confluent partnership, enabling real-time data for AI-driven decision-making. Many organizations struggle to make AI operational because their data is siloed into different systems that weren’t built to work

Data Streaming 🤝 Data Intelligence Confluent and @Databricks are teaming up to empower organizations with AI-ready, real-time data. Our seamless integrations between Tableflow, Delta Tables, and Unity Catalog will connect operational and analytical systems, to power AI-driven

The analytics world is moving from BI to AI. This isn’t just about enabling insights, it’s about powering actions. To make this real analytical data needs to work at the speed of operational applications. Confluent and @Databricks are partnering to make this happen:

Introducing Claude 3.7 Sonnet: our most intelligent model to date. It's a hybrid reasoning model, producing near-instant responses or extended, step-by-step thinking. One model, two ways to think. We’re also releasing an agentic coding tool: Claude Code.

treating a people that have fought and bled for years to protect their homes from an invading empire like they’re spoiled children begging for treats is just disgusting

🚀 We are excited to launch Nile Auth today! Nile Auth is a comprehensive open-source B2B auth solution designed for multi-tenant apps thenile.dev/auth 1. Purpose-built for multi-tenant apps 2. Unlimited active users 3. Customer and user data stored in your DB

“Donald Trump has committed the most profound, harmful and unnecessary economic error in the modern era. Almost everything he said—on history, economics and the technicalities of trade—was utterly deluded” economist.com/leaders/2025/0…

Introducing the next generation: Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4. Claude Opus 4 is our most powerful model yet, and the world’s best coding model. Claude Sonnet 4 is a significant upgrade from its predecessor, delivering superior coding and reasoning.

Our Long Term Benefit Trust has appointed Reed Hastings to Anthropic's board of directors.

Data pros, this one’s for you 👇 #Current25 NOLA is packed with hands-on learning across Kafka, Flink, and Iceberg plus free certs, AI deep dives, and community stories from the best in data. Explore what’s on tap → cnfl.io/476IYrz

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