Revolutionizing Software Pricing: The Rise of Consumption-Based Models with Confluent's President

There's a lot of buzz in the industry right now about consumption-based models. There's, you know, we think of it as maybe the third era of software pricing and licensing and billing models. If the first was kind of the on-premise software license and support, perpetual licenses, the second with the advent of SaaS was subscription models. Now in the last few years, and really pioneered by the cloud service providers, consumption models have been gaining a lot of traction. But first, let's talk a little bit about what it is. Well, a consumption-based model, it really allows you to recognize customer revenue based on actual usage versus the subscription commit versus a committed contract and kind of the promise of usage. And so a lot of people are big fans of the consumption model because it brings your revenue recognition much closer to actual customer usage.