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When people ask me the very top-level question “why do people use Kafka,” I usually lead with the story in my last post, where I talked about how Apache Kafka®

For me, and I think for you, technology is cool by itself. When you first learn how consistent hashing works, it’s fun. When you finally understand log-structured merge trees, it’s

Yes, the other definition of event sourcing. 1. Keynotes from leading technologists At Kafka Summit SF, you’ll get to hear incredible keynotes from leading technologists, including Jay Kreps and Neha

Let us cut to the chase: Kafka Summit London session videos are available! If you were there, you know what a great time it was, and you know that you

A technology community is made up of people. Without people writing code, writing tutorials, welcoming newcomers, giving presentations, and answering questions, what we have is not a community, but just

When managing Apache Kafka® clusters at scale, tasks that are simple on small clusters turn into significant burdens. To be fair, a lot of things turn into significant burdens at

It seems like there’s a Kafka Summit every other month. Of course there’s not—it’s every fourth month—but hey, close enough. We now have the Kafka Summit New York in the

How many Kafka Summits should there be in a year? Experts disagree. Some say there should be one giant event where everybody gathers at once. Some say there should be

The East Coast called. They told us they wanted another New York Kafka Summit. So there was really only one thing we could do: We’re heading back to New York

It might seem a little strange, being the holiday season and still technically 2018, for me to be talking 2019 Kafka Summit events. But as you may already know, the