Announcing the Confluent Q1 ‘22 Launch | Confluent

This post announces the availability of over 50 fully managed connectors on Confluent Cloud, representing a significant expansion of the connector portfolio. It highlights the benefits of using fully managed connectors, including reduced operational burden, lower TCO, and accelerated data integration. Specific new connectors are listed, and the post emphasizes how these connectors enable real-time data pipelines to data warehouses, databases, and data lakes. It also touches upon the journey to fully managed connectors, contrasting them with self-managed Kafka Connect deployments and highlighting Confluent's expertise in building and managing these integrations. The post also mentions integrated monitoring with Datadog & Prometheus, dedicated cluster expand & shrink capabilities, single CSU pricing for ksqlDB, global schema linking, and the unified Confluent v2 CLI as part of the Q1 '22 launch.