Features: Confluent is a startup that provides a real-time data streaming platform based on Apache Kafka. It can manage and analyze data flows in real time by linking with graph databases and knowledge graphs. It is characterized by its ability to maintain high throughput even in large-scale distributed systems and to easily build complex data pipelines.
Usage cases: It is used by financial institutions and e-commerce companies that handle real-time data to analyze transaction data and user activity. It is also used to process IoT data and analyze user behavior on social media platforms.
URL: https://www.confluent.io/
He has been a watcher of the industrial boom from the early 1980s to the present day. 1982, planner of high-tech seminars at the Japan Technology and Economy Centre, and of seminars and research projects at JMA Consulting; in 1986 he organised AI chip seminars on fuzzy inference and other topics, triggering the fuzzy boom; after freelance writing on CG and multimedia, he founded the Mindware Research Institute, selling the Japanese version of Viscovery SOMine since 2000, and Hugin and XLSTAT since 2003 in Japan. The AI portal site, www.aicritique.org was started in 2024 after losing the rights to XLSTAT due to a hostile takeover in 2023.