Apache Kafka, Stream Processing, and Microservices

Abstract: Microservices are rightfully associated with REST, but a lot of what a company does isn't easily modeled by a blocking request and response. What is the right way to build this type of asynchronous service? This talk will make the case for Apache Kafka as a platform for event-drive apps. It will show the relationship between this type of service and the emerging paradigm of stream processing, and will introduce Kafka Streams, a powerful distributed stream processing client that is part of Apache Kafka.

Bio: [Jay needs no introduction :-)]

Jay Kreps is the original author of several of open source projects including Apache Kafka, Apache Samza, Voldemort, and Azkaban.

Jay is the co-founder and CEO at Confluent, a company built around realtime data streams and the open source messaging system Apache Kafka.