"Confluent Platform is not just about moving data, it’s about reliable, low-latency data delivery. Without it, near-real-time execution of machine learning models would not be possible for us."

"We knew we needed to rethink how we processed our data. With Confluent, we’ve got a usage-based data streaming platform where we can develop features, expand into new markets, and create seamless customer experiences based on real-time data."

“Handing off the operational responsibility for Kafka to someone was, to King, comparable to leaving your kid at kindergarten for the first time. You really need to trust that other party to take good care of your baby.”

"Tracking the number of orders per second using ksqlDB is very crucial to us, so we can monitor the use and health of the platform in real time."

"We truly think of Confluent Cloud and Kafka as the central nervous system of our business, spanning everything from the customer-facing applications to distribution center operations from a technology perspective."

"There isn't another product that competes with Confluent. Streaming data as events enables completely new ways for solving problems at scale."

"We know that Confluent Platform and Apache Kafka will continue to help us scale."

"With Confluent, we have a much more flexible architecture that makes it possible for our teams to operate more independently, and that ultimately leads to greater speed across the organization. We’re removing technology barriers and getting data to the teams that need it faster, and that’s enabling us to take …

”Data streaming helps us power key use cases—including real-time data warehousing for real-time analytics and adaptive bitrate streaming—where we can use real-time data to make timely decisions and deliver better experiences for our users. Ultimately, it makes us more profitable, so data streaming is extremely critical to our business and …

“This resulted in several challenges related to broker version upgrades, scaling, and data observability—resulting in unnecessary engineering bandwidth spent on managing the infrastructure versus time spent on working on the product,”

“Confluent is critical for how Vimeo instruments our product and how we make that information available across a multitude of different surface areas. Whether data is fed back into the product or into a pipeline for ML and AI teams, or the product team’s self-service tools to better understand how …

"Running Kafka ourselves was a bit of a no-go given our team size and requirements. As a team we decided we wanted to focus on the technical functions of the platform. We wanted to spend more energy on these functionalities, and leave other things to Confluent who can do it …

“Kafka scales way better than most other data-exchange platforms, as it doesn’t use HTTP for data exchange and offers blazingly fast throughput out-of-the-box.”

“We started out managing our own Kafka clusters, but as soon as we got to scale, we realised it would be too inefficient and expensive for us to keep self-managing. Thankfully, with Confluent, we get fully managed products and services that go beyond just infrastructure; they help us scale Kafka, …

"Data streaming is quickly becoming the central nervous system of our infrastructure as it powers real-time customer experiences across our 12 countries of operations. Stream Designer’s low-code, visual interface will enable more developers, across our entire organization, to leverage data in motion. With a unified, end-to-end view of our streaming …