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# Kong + Confluent: Simplify API and Data Management for Your Business

Revisit one of our sessions from API Summit 2024!

What do you get when you combine the fastest and most widely deployed API gateway in the market with a complete set of cloud-native tools to connect and process data streams throughout your entire business? You can forget about building and managing infrastructure, and focus on building the services you want to provide to your customers!

Join us to learn how the partnership between Kong and Confluent can give you everything you need to simplify API and data management for your business. This session will cover:

- The initial set of features in Kong Gateway certified by Confluent

- The roadmap for the Kong Gateway Connect with Confluent integration: consumers, schemas, data validation

- Why we partnered with Confluent to provide the best solution to connect and process data streams for event-driven microservices

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