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Date Published
Author
Yashwanth Dasari
Word count
2770
Language
English
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None

Summary

This is an announcement from Confluent about the general availability of several new features and products in their cloud platform. They have launched Tableflow, a product that represents Kafka topics as Apache Iceberg or Delta Lake tables, making it easier to feed data into data warehouses and analytics engines. Additionally, they have introduced Freight clusters, which are cost-effective cluster types tailored to streaming use cases, offering up to 90% cost savings compared to traditional Confluent Cloud clusters. Other new features include AI enhancements for Apache Flink, a Visual Studio Code extension for Kafka development, an Oracle XStream CDC Premium Connector, and improved Cluster Linking capabilities. Confluent has also announced the general availability of Confluent for VS Code, which integrates with their cloud platform, and is now available as a Generally Available product.