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Best Practices for Streaming IoT Data with MQTT and Apache Kafka®

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Organizations today are looking to stream IoT data to Apache Kafka. However, connecting tens of thousands or even millions of devices over unreliable networks can create some architecture challenges.

In this session, we will identify and demo some best practices for implementing a large scale IoT system that can stream MQTT messages to Apache Kafka.

Kai Waehner is Field CTO at Confluent. He works with customers across the globe and with internal teams like engineering and marketing. Kai’s main area of expertise lies within the fields of Data Streaming, Analytics, Hybrid Cloud Architectures, Internet of Things, and Blockchain. Kai is a regular speaker at international conferences such as Devoxx, ApacheCon and Kafka Summit, writes articles for professional journals, and shares his experiences with new technologies on his blog: www.kai-waehner.de. Contact: kai.waehner@confluent.io / @KaiWaehner / linkedin.com/in/kaiwaehner.

Dominik Obermaier is co-founder and CTO at HiveMQ. He is passionate about helping customers build and deploy innovative IoT solutions and connected products.