This has been the first time I could attend the Apache Kafka meetup in London. Previous meetings had me in Barcelona or flying. First realisation: it is a surprisingly crowded meetup! Clearly, everyone is using Kafka, even if it is not clear from the outside. Oh, and the food was pretty good, too. Thanks to the sponsor (which I have sadly forgotten).
I really enjoyed this one. The speaker was Jay Kreps, CEO and co-founder of Confluent (and author of I Heart Logs), so, basically, a Kafka top committer himself. He delivered the same presentation he gave in Reactive Summit 2016, but since I wasn't in the former I could enjoy it this time. It was a hand-drawn presentation (I suspect using Paper for iOS), hitting all the supposedly good points of technical presentations (short slides, don't read them, etc). It was also quite deep, explaining what/how and why we should use Kafka Streams for our real-time data pipelines.
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| Jay, presenting. This architecture needs some Kafka |
You can view (and download) the slides from here, and watch Jay in video from Reactive Summit here.
