Kafka as a Platform - The Ecosystem from the Ground Up

Explore the comprehensive ecosystem of Apache Kafka in this 45-minute conference talk from Voxxed Days Singapore 2019. Dive deep into the world of streaming data platforms as Tim Berglund, Senior Director of Developer Experience at Confluent, guides you through Kafka's evolution from a simple messaging system to a robust enterprise-grade platform. Learn about key concepts such as topics, partitioning, replication, and low-level Producer and Consumer APIs. Discover how to create elastically scalable, fault-tolerant application clusters and leverage advanced stream processing APIs like Kafka Streams and KSQL. Gain insights into schema management for team collaboration, legacy system integration, and the overall architecture of Kafka's ecosystem. By the end of this talk, understand how Kafka has transformed from a Big Data message queue solution into a powerful streaming platform suitable for enterprise-level applications.