Confluent Kafka is a streaming platform that is built on top of Apache Kafka. It is designed to handle large volumes of real-time data and is used for building real-time data pipelines and streaming applications. Confluent expands the benefits of Kafka with enterprise-grade features while removing the burden of Kafka management or monitoring. Some of the key features of Confluent Kafka include:

• Confluent Control Center: This is a GUI-based system for managing and monitoring Kafka. It allows you to easily manage Kafka Connect, to create, edit, and manage.

• Confluent Connectors to Kafka: Confluent provides a set of connectors that allow you to stream data between Kafka and other data systems.

• Confluent MQTT Proxy: This provides a way to publish data directly to Kafka from MQTT devices and gateways without the need for an MQTT Broker in the middle.

• Confluent for Kubernetes: This is a Kubernetes operator that simplifies the deployment process of Kafka on Kubernetes and automates typical infrastructure lifecycle tasks.

Confluent provides a truly cloud-native experience, completing Kafka with a holistic set of enterprise-grade features to unleash developer productivity, operate at scale, and reduce TCO. Confluent makes Kafka enterprise-ready and provides customers with the complete set of tools they need to build apps quickly, reliably, and securely.