Confluent’s Newest Features in Q3 2021

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This post announces the general availability of Confluent Cloud Cluster Linking, a new feature for geo-replication and multi-cloud data movement. It simplifies connecting independent Kafka clusters across regions and clouds, enabling increased reliability of global Kafka deployments and unification of cloud environments. It highlights that Cluster Linking is a next-generation geo-replication technology that eliminates legacy middle-system approaches, allowing direct, bidirectional, and consistent replication between two clusters. It also mentions that consumer application offsets are mirrored, and provides benefits such as global data replication, regional disaster recovery, and accelerated project delivery times.