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Struggling with secure, real-time enterprise data access? RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) systems are popular but often fall short in handling dynamic data, security, and compliance. Enter agent-based systems - designed to securely connect AI to live databases, APIs, and ERP systems while enforcing strict permissions and audit trails. Key Takeaways: RAG systems lack granular security, real-time updates, and detailed compliance tracking.

A data contract is a formal agreement between an upstream component and a downstream component on the structure and semantics of data that’s in motion. In a previous post, I showed how Confluent Schema Registry supports data contracts. By combining data contracts and encryption on streaming workloads, you can shift left the responsibility of data consistency, quality, and security to the producer, allowing the consumer to depend on a trustworthy stream of data.

Today, we're thrilled to announce the public preview of Light Sleep. Waking up from Scale-to-Zero is now imperceptible for CPU workloads with sub-200ms cold starts. A few months ago, we announced the first iteration of Scale-to-Zero on the platform to reduce idling costs. With Scale-to-Zero and Autoscaling, apps sleep and wake up automatically on demand based on requests, and scale out horizontally according to your criteria.

How to make your enterprise data accessible, usable, and insightful.

Chatbots have quickly moved from novelty to necessity. With over 987 million users and platforms like ChatGPT receiving more than 4.6 billion monthly visits, chatbots are now core to how people interact with digital products.

As AI models become commoditized, the conversation is shifting from building smarter models to building data infrastructure that turns models into real business value. Enterprises are accelerating their adoption of agentic AI—systems that don’t just predict but plan, decide, and act autonomously—across their software and operations.

More and more businesses are now starting to realize the importance of having a mobile app developed to boost their business and increase customer engagement. There is a good reason to develop a mobile app and hire a mobile app developer to do this. Why? 2017 was a historic year because for the first time mobile internet use overtook desktop searches. Many studies also show that more and more people are using mobile apps to access the internet rather than their web browser.