Enterprises today create more data than ever before. However, harnessing data streams at scale can present a formidable challenge for even the most tech-savvy organizations.
Enter Apache Kafka: the open source, low-latency, highly-durable, big-data stream processing platform. But when should teams use Kafka? And what hurdles should teams expect when deploying Kafka at scale?
About the Webinar
In this recorded webinar, Perforce Chief Open Source and Security Evangelist Javier Perez, OpenLogic Customer Engagement Team Lead Connor Penhale, and OpenLogic Enterprise Architect Joe Carder discuss:
- Common enterprise use cases for Apache Kafka.
- Common issues and how to avoid them.
- Kafka Connect and its importance.
- How Kafka compares to other open source options.
- And more!
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Presenters
Javier Perez
Passionate about technology and open source software, Javier is the Chief Open Source Evangelist and Senior Director of Product Management at Perforce Software. He is responsible for technical thought leadership and advocacy for open source software while driving the OpenLogic by Perforce offering. Javier has been in the application development, open source, cloud, app security, AI, SaaS, and mobile industries for 25+ years. As a speaker and blogger, he has had the opportunity to present at industry events all over the world. Javier holds an honors degree in Computer Systems and an MBA.
Joe Carder
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.
Connor Penhale
An experienced enterprise software architect working to solve complex business problems since 2005, and focused on the confluence of software engineering and global support operations for the Fortune 500, Connor is enabling cloud native solutions for Perforce customers around the world.