Confluent Platform is an enterprise-grade data streaming platform built by the original creators of Apache Kafka, which addresses common challenges faced when deploying open source Kafka at the edge, including managing complexity, processing capabilities, reliable cloud connectivity, and costs. Confluent provides a holistic set of features that come ready out of the box to accelerate time to value and reduce total cost of ownership (TCO) for data streaming. It offers a broad set of non-Java clients for popular programming languages, pre-built connectors, and stream processing capabilities with support for Apache Flink. Confluent reduces risk and resource investments for Kafka by simplifying operational tasks with enterprise-grade features for DevOps and platform teams, providing security features, governance features, disaster recovery and high availability features, and expert support to ensure business success from initial projects to creating a central nervous system across multiple lines of business.