Apache Kafka 2.5 – Overview of Latest Features, Updates, and KIPs

During his time at Twitter, Sam Ritchie led the development of Summingbird, a project that helped Twitter ingest and process massive amounts of data, relieving some key pain points for developers at Twitter. In this episode, Sam dives teaches us some abstract algebra and explains how it has informed his attempts to make stream processing programs easy to write in a more general way.

Confluent Platform 5.5 is out! This release includes improved schema management, Schema Registry support for Protobuf and JSON, better support for languages other than Java within the sphere of librdkafka, and an upgrade to ksqlDB.

There are two primary industries within the Internet of Things (IoT): industrial IoT (IIoT) and consumer IoT (CIoT), both of which can benefit from the Kafka ecosystem, including Kafka Streams and Kafka Connect.. Kai Waehner shares example use cases where he’s seen IoT integration in action, specifically focusing on Walmart and its real-time customer integration using the Walmart app.