Confluent Platform and Confluent Cloud run efficiently largely because of the dedication of the Developer Productivity team. Mohinish Shaikh (Developer, Confluent) talks about how his team builds the product pipelines for the entire event streaming platform and ensures seamless delivery of several engineering processes across engineering and the rest of the org.

How do you use Apache Kafka®, Confluent Platform, and Confluent Cloud for DevOps? Integration Architects Rick Spurgeon and Allison Walther share how, including a custom tool they’ve developed for this very purpose.

Jason Bell delves into his 32-year journey as a DevOps engineer and how he discovered Apache Kafka. As a Kafka DevOps engineer today, Jason works with on-prem clusters and faces challenges like instant replicas going down and bringing other developers who are new to Kafka up to speed so that they can eventually adopt it and begin building out APIs for Kafka.