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Data StreamingIBM September 7, 2026 · 6 min read

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.

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The four articles, in one guide you can take with you

We 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.

  • All four articles in full, in reading order, with their diagrams
  • A four-question checklist before going to production
  • Written from seven years implementing Confluent across Latin America

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