Chris Riccomini on the History of Apache Kafka and Stream Processing

It’s a problem endemic to the tech world that we are always focused on what’s coming next, that we often forget to look at where we’ve been. Chris Riccomini, who was there at LinkedIn when Apache Kafka® was born, tells us how Kafka and the stream processing framework Samza came about, and also what he’s doing these days at WePay—building systems that use Kafka as a primary datastore.

EPISODE LINKS

• When It Absolutely, Positively, Has to be There: Reliability Guarantees in Kafka
• So, You Want to Build a Kafka Connector? Source Edition.
• Kafka is Your Escape Hatch

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