What IBM bought when it bought Confluent
Almost everyone equates Confluent with Kafka. Kafka is one of seven pieces, and the other six explain why IBM paid eleven billion dollars.
Read the articleWhat we learn implementing streaming platforms and AI agents across Latin America, written for whoever has to make the technical call.
Almost everyone equates Confluent with Kafka. Kafka is one of seven pieces, and the other six explain why IBM paid eleven billion dollars.
Read the articleAn agent wired to a warehouse that refreshes overnight reasons about a business that has already changed. The problem is not the model, it is how the data reaches it.
August 11, 2026A streaming platform migration is not done in a maintenance window. It is done through coexistence, domain by domain, with the option to roll back at every stage.
July 21, 2026When the agent runs as a Flink job instead of a separate service, it stops asking for context and starts having it. What changes, and when it makes sense.
June 29, 2026We gathered the blog content into a 16-page document: why the nightly batch breaks agents, what IBM bought when it bought Confluent, what changes when the agent runs inside the stream, and how a migration happens without stopping the business.
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