Received Apache Kafka committer status today. True honor by Apache Kafka PMC. Thank you IBM and Pinterest for the opportunity to contribute. #honored

True honor for the project that you chose to contribute! It has been a pleasure working with you.

Another thing: historically about 7% of the submissions come from women. I would like to double that this year. If you’re a woman who works in or near Apache Kafka and streaming things, would you consider submitting a talk and retweeting this? I would be pretty darn grateful.

We at Confluent have a really exciting sequence of releases coming up as part of Project Metamorphosis. Read about what we just released here: confluent.io/blog/project-m… Or watch the demo video: youtu.be/FN1-ICdY5-U

This years Kafka Summit will be the biggest ever by far, there are over 15,000 attendee signed up already. I can't wait. Also, it's free! confluent.io/blog/top-5-rea…

Confluent Cloud does continuous checks on the correctness and durability of all the data it stores. We worry so that you don’t have to.

We're excited to welcome Kris Jenkins (@[email protected]) as host of the new #StreamingAudio podcast series! Get a taste of what's coming next in this sneak-peek preview: cnfl.io/kris-jenkins-i…

Ready to take your Apache Kafka knowledge further? Join Jun Rao one of the original Apache Kafka creators, and Kris Jenkins (@[email protected]) on #StreamingAudio as they discuss the architecture with respect to features, such as consumer rebalancing and cluster metadata: cnfl.io/podcast-jun-ra…

I’m excited to share that our paper @ConfluentInc, "Kora: A Cloud-Native Event Streaming Platform For Kafka" was awarded the Best Industry Paper at VLDB 2025 🇬🇧 out of 29 accepted papers in the Industry track. 🎉 Let's take a look at the details of the paper (a thread 🧵)

Excited for the first-ever Kafka Summit in NYC on May 8! Register by April 14th and save 30% with code “kaffriend17” bit.ly/kafkasummit

Check out this year's 2017 Apache Kafka report and see how companies are using streaming platforms ow.ly/VHKt30bqB9c

Today we're announcing Confluent Cloud, fully managed Apache Kafka as a service in the public cloud. confluent.io/blog/announcin…

The recordings of all the talks from Kafka Summit NYC are now available online confluent.io/kafka-summit-n…

We've posted all the talks and speakers for the upcoming Kafka Summit SF (8/28/17), really fantastic list of talks! kafka-summit.org/kafka-summit-s…

Real-time Financial Alerts at Rabobank with Apache Kafka’s Streams API confluent.io/blog/real-time…

All the recordings of the talks from Kafka Summit SF are now available for free online: confluent.io/kafka-summit-s…

Apache Kafka 1.0 is out! confluent.io/blog/apache-ka…

.Jay Kreps, Jun Rao and I are thrilled to be part of the #FoundersForChange effort. We believe in a more inclusive tech industry, be it boards, investors, or teams. Join us at foundersforchange.org

Warm congrats to Patterson and Hennessy for sharing this year’s Turing Award! acm.org/media-center/2…

.RBC better serves its 16 million clients across 37 countries by becoming a data-driven organization with Confluent. Watch to learn how. cnfl.io/rbc-datadriven