“We started wondering, can we offload all of the management of Kafka—and still get all of the benefits of Kafka? That’s when Confluent came into the picture.”
"Confluent has been instrumental in the company’s ability to scale. It’s not unusual to have 25 million concurrent users for a live match, and on a daily basis seven to eight terabytes of data come into the platform. According to Disney+ Hotstar, powering so many use cases at this scale was made possible because of the real-time event streaming infrastructure that was built on Confluent Platform and Kafka."
"Availability of data is crucial, and having a fully managed platform for the data distribution lets us provide solutions to our customers at speed."
"With KSQL we can offer our enterprise customers and third-party service providers an accessible tool that lets anyone write simple SQL queries in order to prepare the data themselves, without getting engineers or developers involved, helping them achieve shorter time-to-market while also supporting more adaptive data models."
"Using KSQL and Kafka Streams we have the ability to prepare data in complex structured formats for synching to external systems. We’ve also created a Kafka Streams app that continuously compares the desired and actual state of the data in those systems, and computes an optimal set of API calls needed to perform an update. As a result, we’ve reduced the stress on those external systems by up to 90%, increasing scalability and reliability."
"Confluent Cloud is the core infrastructure that is enabling us to realize our vision of having a single, always-up-to-date view of customer data and our vision of real-time self-optimizing journeys, which will maximize uplift by identifying the optimal campaign for each customer."
"It was a massive project, and a highly reliable message brokering infrastructure that could scale just by adding more nodes as our business needs changed was key to the entire effort."
"When we started, Kafka was a new technology to us, and one that we had decided to use for a very critical application in our system. With Confluent we felt supported in our decision and we knew we had the right level of expertise to get prepared and to help if we encountered any issues. That was a key element in our success."
"We have been very satisfied with Confluent Platform as the backbone of our persistence engine. The platform has been super reliable. We have stringent requirements for real-time performance and reliability, and we have confirmed – from proof-of-concept to deployment of a cutting-edge production trading platform – that we made the right decision."
"Real-time inventory accuracy is just the foundation for much more than just inventory management; it enables retailers to improve post sales and supply chain processes as well as customer engagement and the customer experience. And beyond retail, the real-time asset tracking and supply chain management solutions we’ve built with Kafka and Confluent Cloud are opening opportunities across a wide range of industries including manufacturing, energy and healthcare."
"The level of credibility that Confluent has built in terms of modern, scalable and flexible stream processing does much of our blocking and tackling for us."
"We needed a real-time event streaming architecture to improve the time to market for new apps and reduce the time it takes to stand up and build new clusters and transform a couple of key use cases. Confluent Platform is really helping us, enabling us to move the data in more flexible and reliable ways."
“With Confluent, we’ve achieved even more than what we’d hoped for just by being able to organize our information and make it flow without interruption. That was something mind-blowing for us, because our reality before was just the opposite—everything was difficult and manual and everything eventually broke. So we’ve gained a marvelous tool to solve our problems and we’re now trying to demonstrate the power and value of Confluent to other teams in our organization.”
"In addition to providing the performance, scalability, and resiliency that we require for this critical piece of our architecture, Confluent provides the expertise and operational support that lets us focus on building features that are going to help our customers sell more vehicles."
"Confluent enables us to see our data in motion, which was simply impossible with our existing systems... Much like the weather radar that shows how your situation has changed by the minute, seeing our data in motion with Confluent has enabled us to tackle long-standing business challenges, lower costs, and deliver improved customer experiences."