Confluent Cloud has released Data Portal, a developer-friendly, self-service UI that provides an easy and curated way for users to find, understand, and enrich all of their Kafka data streams. With Data Portal, users can search and discover existing topics across the organization, request access to topics through an approval workflow, set up clients and query data with Apache Flink, and gain a unified view of all available Kafka topics by environment. The platform aims to streamline access request management, eliminate manual permission assignments, and ensure security and access controls remain in place, while also providing an enhanced user experience for stream governance initiatives.