Kafka Summit 2020: What We Learned and Why We Were There.

The 2020 Kafka User Summit, held online August 24-25, attracted over 30,000 participants interested in learning the latest about stream processing and managing data streams. With an increasing amount of daily life moving online, understanding concepts like "stream processing" is crucial for organizations to react to changing business conditions in real-time. The summit covered topics such as technical and industry trends fueling Kafka's growth, future-ready architectural changes, and various use cases across industries. Aerospike, a company focused on delivering maximum value from vast amounts of data at the edge, cloud, and core, presented a session on distributed data storage and streaming for real-time decision making using Kafka, Spark, and Aerospike. The company also highlighted its Kafka connectors and their suitability for various use cases in enterprises.