Apache Kafka 2.8 - ZooKeeper Removal Update (KIP-500) and Overview of Latest Features

At Klarna, Lead Engineer Tommy Brunn is building a runtime platform for developers. But outside of his professional role, he is also one of the authors of the JavaScript client for Apache Kafka® called KafkaJS, which has grown from being a niche open source project to the most downloaded Kafka client for Node.js since 2018.

Imagine if you could create a better world for future generations simply by delivering marine ingenuity. Van Oord is a Dutch family-owned company that has served as an international marine contractor for over 150 years,. It relies on an enterprise architecture model that must seamlessly integrate data lineage and data governance. The basis of their holistic reference architecture is a change data capture (CDC) layer and a persistent layer that makes Confluent the core component of their future-proof digital data management solution. In this episode, Marlon Hiralal (Enterprise/Data Management Architect, Van Oord) and Andreas Wombacher (Data Engineer, Van Oord) share all about it.

What is the internet of things (IoT), and how does it relate to event streaming and Apache Kafka? In this episode, Kai Waehner, field CTO and global technology advisor at Confluent, discusses the intersection of edge data infrastructure, IoT, and cloud services for Kafka. He also details how businesses get into the sticky situation of not accounting for solutions when data is running dangerously close to the edge.