Author: Tim Berglund

Do you make New Year’s resolutions? The most I personally hear about them is people making a big show about how they don’t do them. And sure enough, I don’t […]

I am pleased to announce the release of Confluent Platform 5.4. Like any new release of Confluent Platform, it’s packed with features. To make them easier to digest, I want […]

Last week, the Kafka Summit hosted nearly 2,000 people from 40 different countries and 595 companies—the largest Summit yet. By the numbers, we got to enjoy four keynote speakers, 56 […]

If you looked at the Kafka Summits I’ve been a part of as a sequence of immutable events (and they are, unless you know something about time I don’t), it […]

Day 1 of the event, summarized for your convenience. They say you never forget your first Kafka Summit. Mine was in New York City in 2017, and it had, what, […]

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 […]