Redpanda vs Kafka vs Confluent: An Honest Comparison

Data streaming has moved from a niche pattern used by a handful of internet-scale companies to the default backbone for event-driven architectures, real-time analytics, and now AI pipelines. What started as log aggregation at LinkedIn has become the plumbing for fraud detection, IoT telemetry, microservices communication, and retrieval-augmented generation. Three names dominate that conversation today.

Tableflow: Turn Kafka Topics into Iceberg Tables

TL;DR: Tableflow is a Confluent Cloud feature that materializes Apache Kafka topics as Apache Iceberg or Delta Lake tables, eliminating custom data pipelines by automatically handling schematization, type conversions, schema evolution, CDC stream materialization, catalog publishing, and table maintenance.

Stop Saying "Data Governance." Say This Instead.

Stop saying "Data Governance." Start saying Data Enablement. If your team thinks governance is just red tape, you’re doing it wrong. True governance is a foundation of accountability that ensures high-quality data flows everywhere. Bring your team along on the journey. Show them that a little bit of process right now means they get to make decisions faster and better tomorrow. Trust the data. Speed up the business. Learn more from Swire Coca-Cola's Bharathi Rajan on podcast.

Why Cloudera Data in Motion? #RealTimeAI #DataInMotion

Unlock the full potential of your data fabric and accelerate your AI journey with Cloudera Data in Motion. Many organizations struggle with massive amounts of diverse data spread across different formats, vendors, and locations—whether in the cloud or on-premises data centers. Cloudera provides the scalable, performant data services needed to move and process this information in real-time. Discover how Cloudera’s open-source approach can help you unlock the power of your data anywhere.

What are the 4 Ways to Connect Excel to Snowflake

There are four ways to connect Excel to Snowflake in 2026: (1) Power Query's native Snowflake connector (the easiest, no ODBC required), (2) the Snowflake ODBC driver (most flexible for SQL control), (3) the Snowflake Excel Add-In (user-friendly, limited to newer Excel versions), and (4) a third-party ETL platform like Integrate.io (best for automation and scheduled pipelines). For most users, Power Query is the recommended starting point.

The Single Metric That Decides If Your SaaS Survives

The SaaS purge is here, and it’s survival of the fittest. On the latest, Joshua McKenzie (@elmosoftware) drops a harsh reality check: If your software isn’t the ultimate "system of record," your customers are already plotting to build over you. If you're just a pretty interface, you're replaceable.

Thousands of Migrations, Zero Data Loss: OCBC's Confluent Playbook | Life Is But A Stream

Migrating an entire bank's infrastructure without losing a single transaction sounds impossible. Yet, OCBC successfully modernized their event-driven architecture across Singapore, Malaysia, and Hong Kong with zero data loss. In this episode, George Goh (Executive Director at OCBC) joins Joseph Morais and Sami Amed (Staff Solutions Engineer at Confluent) to pull back the curtain on a massive data streaming migration, how the team executed a flawless migration of thousands of producers and consumers in a single weekend.