How-to Guides for Confluent Cloud for Apache Flink

Discover how Confluent Cloud for Apache Flink® can help you accomplish common processing tasks such as joins and aggregations. This section provides step-by-step guidance on how to use Flink to process your data efficiently and effectively.

Flink actions

Confluent Cloud for Apache Flink provides Flink Actions that enable you to perform specific data-processing tasks on topics with minimal configuration. These actions are designed to simplify common workloads by providing a user-friendly interface to configure and execute them.

  • Create an Embedding: Convert data in a topic’s column into a vector embedding for AI model inference.
  • Deduplicate Rows in a Table: Remove duplicate records from a topic based on specified fields, ensuring that only unique records are retained in the output topic.
  • Mask Fields in a Table: Mask sensitive data in specified fields of a topic by replacing the original data with a static value.
  • Transform a Topic: Change a topic’s properties by applying custom Flink SQL transformations.