Confluent Adds A2A Protocol Support for Multi-Agent Streaming Data Networks
Enterprise data infrastructure and agentic AI are colliding in a significant way today. Confluent — the company built around Apache Kafka and real-time streaming data — has added official support for the Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol to its Confluent Intelligence platform. Alongside MCP (Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol), A2A is now a first-class citizen in Confluent’s agent orchestration layer. This is a story about infrastructure maturing to meet where agents are going — and it matters for any team building multi-agent systems on top of real-world data streams. ...