Highlights from Berlin Buzzwords 2022

Berlin Buzzwords 2022 brought together developers from around the world to discuss storing, processing, streaming, and searching data. The event featured talks on Apache Kafka, Apache Flink, Apache Druid, OpenSearch, Apache Lucene, Vespa, Apache Pinot, OpenTelemetry, PostgreSQL, and more. Key highlights included Olena Kutsenko's session on understanding Apache Kafka, Amrit Sarkar's talk on metrics for running Kafka at scale, Christoph Schubert's introduction to the Kafka Streams architecture, Timo Walther's overview of Apache Flink, and Sergio Ferragut's introduction to Apache Druid. The event also covered topics such as scaling Kubernetes, validating large systems, and using search engine technologies for various use cases.