Zilliz Cloud has partnered with Confluent to unlock semantic search for real-time updates powered by Apache Kafka, Apache Flink, and the Milvus vector database. The new cloud-native, serverless Apache Flink service is now available directly alongside cloud-native Apache Kafka on Confluent's fully managed data streaming platform. This integration enables users to easily build high-quality, reusable data streams for real-time GenAI applications. By leveraging Kafka and Flink as a unified platform, teams can connect to data sources across any environment, clean and enrich data streams on the fly, and deliver them in real-time to the Milvus vector database for efficient semantic search or recommendation.