With the increasing adoption of event-driven architectures built on Apache Kafka, modern businesses face challenges in managing streaming data pipelines, particularly when working with Kafka Connect. To alleviate these burdens, Confluent offers a fully managed connector portfolio for Confluent Cloud, providing speed, simplicity, and reliability. These connectors are fully managed across the entire stack, allowing developers to focus on strategic projects while leveraging productivity features like single message transforms, exposed connect logs, and data preview. Stream Designer, a visual pipeline builder, further simplifies stream processing by representing common ksqlDB operations as pre-built blocks that can be easily configured. By using Confluent's fully managed connectors, businesses can quickly launch pipelines, build out their streaming data integration, and remove the ongoing operational burdens associated with self-managing connectors.