What problems does Apache Kafka Solve? (with Neil Buesing)

Neil Buesing is a seasoned Apache Kafka® user, and a respected voice from the Kafka community who specialises in helping companies make the best use of Kafka. And that makes him the ideal person to ask the $64,000 question: What problems can Kafka actually solve for me? Because Kafka's definitely interesting, and it can be fun, but to earn a place in the toolbox it has to make life easier.  In answering that question, Neil covers a tonne of ground, from queuing and quasi-databases, transitioning from batch to real-time, and solving general software integration headaches.  If you have data problems, big or small, join us to figure out if Kafka is the answer.  --  Kinetic Edge: https://www.kineticedge.io Neil on Twitter: https://twitter.com/nbuesing Neil on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nbuesing/ Kris on Twitter: https://twitter.com/krisajenkins Kris on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/krisjenkins/ Building an Enterprise Eventing Framework (Conference Talk): https://www.confluent.io/en-gb/kafka-summit-san-francisco-2019/building-an-enterprise-eventing-framework/ Synchronous Kafka (Conference Talk): https://www.confluent.io/resources/kafka-summit-2020/synchronous-commands-over-apache-kafka/ Dev Local: https://github.com/kineticedge/dev-local KIP-714 - Client metrics and observability: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-714%3A+Client+metrics+and+observability