How Merging Companies Will Give Rise to Unified Data Streams

Company mergers often require the integration of disparate data pipelines, and event streaming plays a crucial role in this process. Digital companies, such as ride-sharing and gaming firms, capture real-time business events, and when they merge, they face challenges in unifying their data streams to accommodate increased scale and volume. Confluent Cloud, built on Apache Kafka, offers a solution by providing a fully managed event streaming service with a broad ecosystem of connectors, facilitating the integration across platforms with minimal downtime. By centralizing data streams via Confluent Cloud, companies can continue to make real-time operational decisions and merge infrastructure efficiently. Examples include using Kafka Connect to integrate real-time data feeds into a centralized Kafka cluster and employing ksqlDB to compute business metrics post-merger. The blog illustrates this process by detailing the integration of an Amazon Kinesis data stream into Confluent Cloud using a fully managed Kinesis source connector.