Kafka Summit New York City: The Rise of the Event Streaming Platform

Kafka Summit New York City was a significant gathering of the Apache Kafka community, featuring over 500 participants from various industries. The event focused on the emergence of event streaming platforms, with Kafka at its core. Confluent announced Confluent Cloud, an Apache Kafka as a Service offering that aims to make it easy for anyone to implement and scale the leading event streaming platform without cloud provider lock-in. Other highlights included keynotes from ING's Ferd Scheepers on Kafka's role in modernizing data strategy and customer experience, and discussions on exactly once semantics and upcoming Kafka Improvement Proposals. The next Kafka Summit will take place in San Francisco on August 28th.