Kreps argued that AI applications need fresh, well-defined data, and that streaming "data products" published by each team are how companies get there. Flink was positioned as the processing layer for AI use cases, with Flink coming to Confluent Platform on premises and Tableflow exposing Kafka topics as Apache Iceberg tables with one click.

What it announced

Flink in Confluent Platform · ConfluentStream processing on premisesAnnounced
Tableflow · ConfluentKafka topics as Apache Iceberg tablesAnnounced
Flink Table API for Java and Python · ConfluentProgrammatic Flink in Confluent CloudAnnounced

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Day 2 Keynote: The Rise of Data Streaming Engineers

Sep 19, 2024 · 1h 14m

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Named or launching: Confluent