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Zero Data Loss: Migrating Thousands of Microservices

Jul 13, 2026 By Confluent In Confluent

OCBC migrated thousands of microservices, batch jobs, and monolithic applications across multiple regions in just six hours with zero data loss. George Goh shares how six months of planning enabled flawless execution.

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Redpanda vs Kafka vs Confluent: An Honest Comparison

Jul 10, 2026 By Bijoy Choudhury In Confluent

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.

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Tableflow: Turn Kafka Topics into Iceberg Tables

Jul 10, 2026 By Mohtasham Sayeed Mohiuddin In Confluent

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.

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

Jul 9, 2026 By Confluent In Confluent

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.