Look, I’m biased, but about 97% of blockchain usecases I hear about don’t need anything like blockchain, they just need a commit log, and they’d be about 100x simpler and faster if they just used @apachekafka. Or, for that matter, @PostgreSQL.
Jay Kreps
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Jay Kreps
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- 1. A quick reflection on Confluent's IPO today and the journey so far (a thread!).
- Nikki Haley telling lazy Silicon Valley companies that if we just avoided immigrants like they do in South Carolina, we could have a tech industry like theirs. I suspect she’s right! :-)When I was governor in SC our unemployment went from 11% to 4%. How? Not by hiring foreign workers. We recruited foreign companies to invest in SC but not their workers. We retrained South Carolinians in our tech schools for these new jobs. The companies started apprentice
- The irony of distributed systems is that data loss is really easy but deleting data is surprisingly hard.
- We think this is a big step in making stream processing easier. I'm really excited about it.
- Apache Kafka 1.0 is out!
- Having worked on both social networks and distributed systems, I’m pretty confident that decentralizing social media will not solve any of the problems people think it will and will make impossible the actual hard stuff you need to get right (relevance, abuse, search, etc).
- Folks are working on what is probably the most requested feature in @apachekafka: removing ZooKeeper as a dependency. This makes the minimum footprint smaller, and makes it a lot easier to manage, secure, and scale. Lots of work to do to make it real.Good things are happening :) cwiki.apache.org/confluence/dis…
- I mean *I* think our streaming strategy is pretty good but maybe I should talk to this guy to be sure? 😀
- Okay, since I can't resist a good argument I wrote up a few thoughts for any Kafka Exactly Once skeptics out there:
- 1/ People often ask why it took so long for Kafka to go 1.0.
- I'm excited to announce that Confluent has raised a $250m Series E funding round. We think this is just the beginning, and that event streams are going to be one of the most important data platform in a modern company.
