Nick Dearden explains the five stages of streaming maturity, from the first streaming project you ever build all the way to a state where an entire organization is transformed to think in terms of real-time, event-driven systems.

Tim Berglund and Viktor Gamov address some of the challenges and pitfalls of managing Kafka on Kubernetes at scale. They also share lessons learned from the development of the Confluent Operator for Kubernetes.

Use KSQL to calculate the difference between the expected arrival time and real-time updates of a bus as it executes its route. Leslie Kurt walks you through fundamental concepts, persistent queries, Confluent MQTT Proxy and other use cases.