IBM completes multi-billion-dollar acquisition of Confluent
IBM acquired Confluent for $11 billion to integrate real-time data streaming into its AI portfolio, enabling AI models to operate on current business data across hybrid environments.
Anghami CEO's side project World Monitor now has 2 million users tracking conflicts in real time - Silicon Canals
A music streaming CEO created World Monitor, an open-source geopolitical intelligence platform using algorithmic data convergence that now serves 2 million users by processing real-time conflict, military, and satellite data without human editorial intervention.
Pinterest's CDC-Powered Ingestion Slashes Database Latency from 24 Hours to 15 Minutes
Pinterest deployed a next-generation database ingestion framework using CDC, Kafka, Flink, Spark, and Iceberg to reduce data latency from 24+ hours to minutes while processing only changed records.