5 Years of Event Streaming and Counting ft. Gwen Shapira, Ben Stopford, and Michael Noll

With the explosion of real-time data, Apache Kafka and event stream processing (ESP) have grown in proliferation, with event streaming technology becoming the de facto technology transforming businesses across numerous verticals. Gwen Shapira (Engineering Leader, Confluent), Ben Stopford (Senior Director, OCTO, Confluent), and Michael Noll (Principal Technologist, Confluent) meet up to talk all about their last five years at Confluent and the changes they’ve seen in event streaming. They discuss what they were doing with Apache Kafka® before they arrived at Confluent, challenges in event streaming challenges that have arisen, and their favorite use cases. They then talk through what they think the Kafka community is undervaluing and where they think event streaming will be in the next five years. EPISODE LINKSTim’s Budapest Drone Footage Rolling Kafka Upgrades and Confluent Cloud ft. Gwen ShapiraDistributed Systems Engineering with Apache Kafka ft. Gwen ShapiraImproving Fairness Through Connection Throttling in the Cloud with KIP-402 ft. Gwen ShapiraAsk ConfluentApache Kafka Fundamentals: The Concept of Streams and Tables ft. Michael NollBen Stopford on Microservices and Event StreamingThe Portable Wonder Synthesizer Children's Hospital of Atlanta: Helping Healthcare with Apache Kafka and KSQL ft. Ramesh SringeriJoin the Confluent Community SlackLearn more with Kafka tutorials, resources, and guides at Confluent DeveloperUse 60PDCAST to get an additional $60 of free Confluent Cloud usage (details)SEASON 2 Hosted by Tim Berglund, Adi Polak and Viktor Gamov Produced and Edited by Noelle Gallagher, Peter Furia and Nurie Mohamed Music by Coastal Kites Artwork by Phil Vo  🎧 Subscribe to Confluent Developer wherever you listen to podcasts. ▶️ Subscribe on YouTube, and hit the 🔔 to catch new episodes.👍 If you enjoyed this, please leave us a rating. 🎧 Confluent also has a podcast for tech leaders: "Life Is But A Stream" hosted by our friend, Joseph Morais.