Confluent

Confluent is a software company that provides a commercial platform built around Apache Kafka, a popular open-source event-streaming technology. As a key player in the data streaming and integration space, Confluent's platform enables businesses to manage and process large volumes of real-time data, making it a crucial tool for companies looking to build scalable and reliable data architectures, and a topic of interest for tech professionals working with big data, cloud computing, and DevOps.