The Confluent Platform 2.0 is now available, offering a centralized stream data platform for organizations that want to build streaming data pipelines around Apache Kafka. It includes new features such as multi-tenant support, data flow from existing systems to Kafka, and improved security capabilities including client authentication, user-defined quotas, and encryption of network connections. The release also introduces Kafka Connect, a tool for large-scale real-time data import and export between Kafka and various other systems. Additionally, Confluent Platform 2.0 includes open-source connectors for log files, relational databases, and Hadoop, as well as fully-featured native Java producer and consumer clients with feature and API parity to Apache Kafka 0.9 Java clients. The platform is entirely open source and backed by subscription support, expert training, and technical consulting services.