Videos

Agent Skills or MCP in the era of Claude Code?
Confluent's position on the Skills vs MCP debate, with a brief introduction to both.
March 10, 2026
Apache Iceberg/Tableflow Course
Confluent's course on Apache Iceberg and Tableflow.
February 19, 2026
Prompt Engineering is dead.
Confluent's thorough introduction to context engineering.
February 10, 2026
Confluent Cloud is Cheaper than AWS
An impactful commercial for an aggressive price guarantee campaign.
September 22, 2025
Apache Kafka: What it is and where it’s going.
A updated version of Confluent's blockbuster Kafka lightboard.
August 12, 2025
Why MCP really is a big deal
Confluent's point of view on the Model Context Protocol, released a few months earlier by Anthropic.
May 27, 2025
Apache Kafka 101 is back! (2025 Edition ft. Tim Berglund)
An update to Confluent's beloved introductory Kafka course.
May 13, 2025
Apache Iceberg: What It Is and Why Everyone’s Talking About It.
An introductory lightboard video about Apache Iceberg.
April 8, 2025
What is Real-Time Analytics?
StarTree's explanation of the emerging category of real-time analytics driven by the requirements of latency, concurrency, and freshness.
July 22, 2022
What is Apache Pinot?
StarTree's introduction to Apache Pinot, the scalable real-time analytics database.
May 24, 2022
The Architect (Bare Metalsson)
Confluent's satirical mini-documentary about a software architect who hates the cloud.
November 10, 2021