22
May
Confluent Inc. today announced expanded capabilities for its managed service for Apache Flink, the open-source big data processing framework. Unlike the regular open-source Flink, it comes with a novel AI Model Inference feature that organizations can use to clean and process real-time streaming data for artificial intelligence and machine learning applications. In addition, the company announced an auto-scaling cluster type for use cases such as logging and telemetry data without time requirements. Founded in 2014, Confluent is the company that leads the development of Apache Kafka, the popular open-source big data streaming platform that enables companies to move information quickly from…