The "Endurance" endures, waiting for us to find it. Her captain, Ernest Shackleton, is mostly remembered not for discoveries but for leadership under duress. 100+ years later we're still in awe, it was that amazing. Which of today's "leaders" will be revered 100 years from now?

What I learned: Event streaming. API vs SQL contracts. Data as product. Alternative to central data warehouse. Microservices. Law of Demeter. ESBs. The Picard Maneuver.

Just kidding about "The Picard Maneuver" bit ;)

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Deep dives are always fun; this one by the person who was in the room from the start, probably at the head of the table. Will be a Netflix series next.

"Most data starts life as an event" says Robin Moffatt 🍻🏃🥓

"Life doesn't happen in batch" - more wise words from Robin Moffatt 🍻🏃🥓

A fun talk by a fun speaker. A practical intro to Kafka Streams, from an unexpected direction: the game of adventure.

"xyzzy" (it's OK if you don't get this)

Great recognition for Danica and Kris, for their fun podcast about how they got started in advocacy: developer.confluent.io/podcast/how-i-…

"Rabbit Hole"

These videos are tiny works of art. A hand-crafted approach to hands-on (learning) fun about the world of streaming data.

Not sure what Kafka is? Not sure how to get started? Here you go.

Down to the wire... Kafka Summit is a sweet community-powered conference filled with smart, passionate folks who want to share a thing or two about the world of data and event streaming.

Mike is really good at what he does.

Kafka and Alpacas. Perfect.

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Perception vs Reality. Does the bird know how it's hacking our perception of its reality?

Catch up on recent contributions, hear all about upcoming KIPs & FLIPs, and take a deep dive into the innovative applications users are building to shape the future of data streaming—all in the #Current23 Day 2 Keynote. Stream it now! 👉 youtu.be/g5rHDmq3c18