Using Apache Flink SQL to Build Real-Time Streaming Apps

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This post introduces SQL Workspaces, a new browser-based interface for Confluent Cloud's serverless Apache Flink service. It details how Flink SQL is integrated with Confluent Cloud environments, clusters, and topics, mapping them to Flink's catalog, database, and table abstractions. The post highlights features like auto-saving workspaces, multi-editor support for concurrent development and debugging of streaming SQL statements, and real-time runtime metrics. It also describes contextual entry points within the Confluent Cloud UI (e.g., from Kafka topic views and Data Portal) that allow users to directly launch SQL Workspaces and query data.