5. Recap
How Confluent created a 10x data
streaming platform
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Confluent Product Overview
Walkthrough of key product features
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Hands-on workshop
Use Confluent Cloud in action
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Session Agenda
6. Confluent reinvented Kafka to build a data
streaming platform that’s 10x better, with 10x faster
scaling, infinite storage, built-in resiliency, and more.
8. Serverless
● Elastic scaling up & down
from 0 to GBps
● Auto capacity mgmt,
load balancing, and
upgrades
High Availability
● 99.99% SLA
● Multi-region / AZ availability
across cloud providers
● Patches deployed in Confluent
Cloud before Apache Kafka
Infinite Storage
● Store data cost-
effectively at any scale
without growing
compute
DevOps Automation
● API-driven and/or
point-and-click ops
● Service portability &
consistency across cloud
providers and on-prem
Network
Flexibility
● Public, VPC, and
Private Link
● Self-managed option
for air-gapped
environments
Elastic: Instantly scale to meet any demand
Seamlessly provision and deploy fully managed, elastically
scaling clusters with infinite storage that expand & shrink to
cost-effectively support all streaming use cases
Reliable: Power streaming apps & analytics with resilience
Maintain high availability of your clusters and data streams
with our 99.99% uptime SLA, multi-AZ / region clusters, and
no-touch Kafka patches & upgrades
Agile: Focus on innovation, not infrastructure
Fully automate management of serverless clusters through
code via Terraform integration and REST APIs, paying only for
what you use when you use it
Cloud-Native
Apache Kafka®
, fully managed and re-architected
to harness the power of the cloud
“Before Confluent, when we had broker outages that
required rebuilds, it could take up to three days of
developer time to resolve. Now, Confluent takes care
of everything for us, so our developers can focus on
building new features and applications.”
9. You
Manage
Provider
Managed
Self-managed IaaS Hosted Cloud Service Fully Managed SaaS
Scaling Scaling Scaling
Load balancing Load balancing Load balancing
Partition placement Partition placement Partition placement
Logical Storage Logical Storage Logical Storage
Broker settings Broker settings Broker settings
Zookeeper Zookeeper Zookeeper
Kafka patching Kafka patching Kafka patching
JVM JVM JVM
O/S O/S O/S
VMs VMs VMs
Servers Servers Servers
Provider
managed
features
Product
ease of use
Confluent Cloud
Other Kafka
Services
Apache Kafka
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"Offloading that day-to-day
burden of operations has
been a huge help. A lot of
overall operations-type
work gets offloaded when
you move to Confluent
Cloud… Where we’re saving
time now is on the DevOps
side of maintenance of all
those systems — patching
underlying systems or
upgrading (them) — those
were big things to be able to
offload.”
Confluent offers the only Fully Managed
Kafka Service…
Fully Managed SaaS delivers a cloud-native, serverless experience
10. …enabling you to deploy, operate, and scale in minutes
instead of months
Kafka re-architected to be truly Cloud-Native
10
Months Minutes
Weeks
Open Source
Apache Kafka
In-house development and
maintenance without support
Self-managed
Kafka Services
Manual operations with basic
tooling and/or support
Confluent
Cloud
Fully managed, elastic,
and automated product
capabilities with zero overhead
11. Complete
Go above & beyond Kafka with all the essential
tools for a complete data streaming platform
Connectors & Stream Processing: Connect to any system and
process your data streams in-flight
Reduce TCO and architectural complexity with our portfolio of 120+
pre-built connectors and stream processing powered by ksqlDB, all
available fully managed and built-in with Confluent Cloud
Stream Designer: Quickly build and deploy streaming apps &
pipelines
Rapidly build, test, and deploy streaming data pipelines with Stream
Designer, extensible with SQL, while reducing the need to write
boilerplate code
Security & Governance: Secure, discover, and organize your
data streams
Build trust and put your data streams to work with enterprise-grade
security and the only Stream Governance suite for data in motion
“BHG is a fast-moving company, and Confluent is
quickly becoming not only a central highway for
our data with their vast connector portfolio, but a
streaming transformation engine as well for a vast
number of use cases… We are making Confluent the
true backbone of BHG, including leveraging 20+
Confluent connectors across both modern,
cloud-based technologies & legacy systems, to help
integrate our critical apps & data systems together.”
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Connectors
Security
Data
Governance
Stream
Processing
Monitoring
Global
Resilience
Stream
Designer
12. Everywhere
Connect your data in real time with a
platform that spans from on-prem to cloud
and across clouds
Run Anywhere: Deploy across any environment
Provision Confluent as a fully managed service on AWS, Azure, and
Google Cloud across 60+ regions w/ Confluent Cloud, or
on-premises w/ Confluent Platform
Unified: Unify data across hybrid and multi-clouds
Provide consistent, self-service access to real-time data across all
your environments with Cluster Linking and globally connected
clusters that perfectly mirror data
Consistent: Learn one platform for all environments
Remove the burden of learning new tools for each environment
with a consistent experience spanning across cloud, on-prem, and
hybrid / multicloud
“Our transformation to a cloud-native, agile
company required a large-scale migration from
open source Apache Kafka. With Confluent, we now
support real-time data sharing across all of our
environments, and see a clear path forward for our
hybrid cloud roadmap.”
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14. Confluent Cloud maximizes your ROI with reduced TCO
and accelerated time-to-value
Reduce total cost
of ownership
Operate 60%+ more
cost-effectively with reduced
infra costs, development &
operations overhead, &
downtime risk
Accelerate
time-to-value
Deploy, operate, and scale
Kafka within
minutes of starting with
Confluent
Free up talent to
differentiate your
business
Unburden engineering
talent from infrastructure
management to drive new
use cases
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16. Stocktilla
Stocktilla wants to…
● Enrich client data with stock transactions for internal teams to
send instant notifications on web applications
● Store transactions for auditing purposes in their cloud database
Workshop
Scenario
Github Repository
17. Connect mySQL source database to MongoDB
In this
workshop, we
will…
Get started with Confluent Cloud with an account,
environment, and cluster
Process the data streams in-flight using ksqlDB
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Govern data streaming across source and sink
systems with Stream Governance
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18. Start your free trial of
Confluent Cloud & get $400 in
credits
Get started with Confluent Cloud is easy!
confluent.io/confluent-cloud/tryfree/
Request a personalized TCO
assessment for your current
Kafka needs or future Data
Streaming Platform
19. What you need for this workshop
Desktop/ Laptop with internet
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Your energy!
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