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Confluent
Toll BrothersToll Brothers Runs Real-time Operations with Confluent
Toll Brothers, a consumer discretionary organization in the United States, uses Connect from Confluent to support real-time operations for platform engineers.
Value results
| Category | Value result |
|---|---|
| Productivity | Fewer stalled items because event streams has a clear owner |
| Risk and compliance | Connect is the governed place platform engineers use for real-time operations |
| Capability | New joiners can see how real-time operations actually runs |
Story
Toll Brothers grew event streams faster than the local tools around it. From the United States, consumer discretionary teams still had to serve customers and internal partners who expected a straight answer. Platform engineers were the ones stitching the picture together by hand.
Rolling out Connect put real-time operations on Confluent. Confluent is the data streaming platform built around Apache Kafka, used to move events between applications in real time. Toll Brothers keeps the product in the path where work already happens, so platform engineers do not context-switch into a graveyard system used only for audits.
The visible result is steadier real-time operations. Event streams is easier to inspect, and adjacent groups can join platform engineers without a guided tour of someone's desktop.
