With more than 2,000 attendees, among technological leaders, strategic partners and developers, the event Current London 2025 It has been consolidated as one of the key meetings of the year for those who work in artificial intelligence (AI), advanced analytics and data architecture in real time. Organized by Confluent, the company behind the leading Data Streaming platform based on Apache Kafka, the event has served to mark a new milestone: the final union between Batch processing and in real time, essential for new intelligent agents and analytical flows.
The great novelty presented was the evolution of the platform of Unified streamingAble to feed both operational and analytical systems in real time. According to Shaun Clowes, Chief Product Officer of Confluent, this responds to an urgent need for organizations: “Modern software problems are almost always data problems. Whether you are creating a client experience, an internal application, a report or a workflow of AI, the most difficult thing is to obtain the right data, in the correct way, and in the right place at the right time.”
Clowes stressed that current systems have become deeply dependent on real -time data: from retail promotions that adapt to inventory, to AI agents that optimize logistics routes to the second. “We are expanding the number of decisions that we hope that the software will take, deepening its complexity and reducing the time window to do so”, He explained, warning that without a data infrastructure in straaming robust, latency or incomplete context failures can turn an advanced AI“Chaos Machine”
Among the outstanding demonstrations was that of Banco River, a global financial institution that has redesigned its mortgage application process with governed data flows, enriched and distributed through Kafka and Confluent, achieving greater precision and less human intervention.
Current London 2025: Apache Kafka, Modern Data
For his part, Jay Kreps, CEO and co -founder of Confluent, valued the central role of Apache Kafka in this new paradigm. “There are more than 100,000 organizations that use Kafka in production. The energy in the Kafka community has never been so high”, Said in the framework of Current London 2025. In addition, he celebrated the arrival of Apache Kafka 4.0which eliminates the dependence of Zookeeper and improves the reliability of consumers thanks to a more agile and simple rebalancing.
Current London 2025: The data streaming revolution is strengthened as the modern AI pillar
Kreps also presented important advances in Confluent Cloudthe cloud-native solution of the company, which now allows elastic scalability in clusters adapted to each type of load: from low latency to massive data transfer to the lowest cost. The new cluster PRATEfor example, reduce costs up to 90% by direct writing in object storage, ideal for loads with less latency requirement.
As for hybrid and multicloud deployments, the company has reinforced its strategy with cluster linking between clouds and the next launch of the Unified Stream Manager, which will allow governing environments distributed from a unified console, applying global security and encryption policies. “Imagine being able to establish an encryption policy in a single place and, just by clicking a button, apply it to the entire streaming park.”, Said Kreps.
The “Current London 2025” event made confluent’s vision clear: to move the data to feed a new generation of smart software, capable of responding in real time to a world that no longer stops. And he does not only with technology, but with a vibrant global community that, as Kreps stressed, “Continue improving”
