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Joe Carder

Enterprise Solutions Architect

Joe Carder is an accomplished Enterprise Architect and technologist with over two decades of experience designing and implementing large-scale, mission-critical systems. At Perforce OpenLogic, Joe leads enterprise architecture initiatives and consults with Fortune 500 companies and startups alike to modernize their infrastructure, optimize cloud deployments, and adopt open source best practices.

Joe's expertise spans containerization (Kubernetes, Docker), integration technologies (Kafka, Apache Camel, ActiveMQ), and Infrastructure-as-Code automation (Terraform, Ansible). He has designed and delivered training programs on topics ranging from security as code to machine learning enablement and is a sought-after speaker at industry conferences such as ZendCon and DeveloperWeek. With a career that began in web systems administration and grew through senior engineering and architecture roles, Joe combines hands-on technical depth with strategic vision. He is passionate about helping organizations unlock the power of open source, scale with confidence, and align technology with business goals.

Latest Content from Joe Carder

Running Kafka Without ZooKeeper in KRaft Mode Blog

Running Kafka Without ZooKeeper in KRaft Mode

Get an overview of KRaft mode and find how it differs from ZooKeeper, which is longer be supported in Kafka 4.x releases.
Apache Kafka
Solving Complex Kafka Issues: Enterprise Case Studies Blog

Solving Complex Kafka Issues: Enterprise Case Studies

In this blog, read case studies about some of the complex Apache Kafka issues that the OpenLogic Professional Services team was able to resolve for finance, marketing, and aerospace customers.
Apache Kafka
Exploring Redis Alternatives Blog

Exploring Redis Alternatives

In this blog, our expert compares Redis, an open source key-value database, to other open source data technologies.
Databases
Apache Kafka vs. Redis: Are They Truly Comparable? Blog

Apache Kafka vs. Redis: Are They Truly Comparable?

Kafka vs. Redis, while an often-searched topic, isn't the 1:1 comparison a lot of people seem to think it is. See why in this blog.
Apache Kafka
What's New in Apache Kafka 3.5: Features to Watch Blog

What's New in Apache Kafka 3.5: Features to Watch

Our expert explains what’s new in Kafka 3.5, touching on new and deprecated features, as well as what may be coming in future 3.x releases and what to consider before upgrading.
Apache Kafka
Exploring ActiveMQ Artemis Blog

Exploring ActiveMQ Artemis

This blog gives an overview of ActiveMQ Artemis features, how it compares to vanilla ActiveMQ, and considerations for use in production.
ActiveMQ, Middleware, Web Infrastructure
Processing Data Streams with Kafka and Spark Blog

Processing Data Streams with Kafka and Spark

In this blog, our expert discusses the popular combination of Apache Kafka and Spark Streaming for processing data streams, compares Kafka Streams to Spark Streaming, and explains how to integrate Kafka and Spark.
Apache Kafka
How to Develop a Winning Kafka Partition Strategy Blog

How to Develop a Winning Kafka Partition Strategy

Learn about Apache Kafka partitioning, including partition strategy examples and best practices.
Apache Kafka
Beginner's Guide to Apache Tomcat Memory Configuration Blog

Beginner's Guide to Apache Tomcat Memory Configuration

In this blog, our expert discusses how to successfully navigate Apache Tomcat memory configuration — including common memory issues to watch out for.
Tomcat, Middleware