Confluent’s Kafka Platform Becomes a ‘First Party’ Service for Azure

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• Confluent’s commercial Kafka platform for managing streaming data now can work seamlessly with Microsoft Azure such that Azure customers can access Confluent Cloud without “ever leaving the Azure portal,” Dan Rosanova, head of product management at Confluent, told The New Stack.
• That was not possible without this new native integration.
• According to Confluent, 80% of the Fortune 100 companies have adopted Kafka for data streaming, often across multiple cloud environments located in different geographical locations around the world.
• One of the idiosyncrasies associated with Azure that required configuration work by Confluent’s engineers involved how Azure “works off a resource provider for the control plane,” in order to create and manage resources, Rosanova said.
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