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Confluent Current 2024: Keynote Day 1: Data Streaming in the Age of AI

Jay Kreps · Sep 17, 2024 · 1h 37m · Austin, Texas

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Summary

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.

Key themes: Data platforms, Agents, Open source · AI-written summary from the published transcript

Where each highlight is said1:37:12
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  1. 9:54

    AI applications need data that is relevant and up to date with what is happening right now, Kreps argued

  2. 15:08

    Confluent has been adding direct model calls to Flink so streams can feed AI in real time

  3. 18:37

    Flink was pitched as a strong platform for AI from simple chatbots to autonomous agents

  4. 24:32

    Each team should publish its data as real-time streams, "data products" the rest of the company can reuse

  5. 1:04:04

    Tableflow exposes a Kafka topic as an Apache Iceberg table with one click

  6. 1:12:20

    Flink comes to Confluent Platform so the same processing runs in customers' own data centers

Announced

AnnouncedFlink in Confluent PlatformStream processing on premises
AnnouncedTableflowKafka topics as Apache Iceberg tables
AnnouncedFlink Table API for Java and PythonProgrammatic Flink in Confluent Cloud

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