Building an Apache Kafka Center of Excellence Within Your Organization ft. Neil Buesing

Neil Buesing, an Apache Kafka® community stalwart at Object Partners, spends his days building things out of Kafka and helping others do the same. Today, he discusses the concept of a CoE (center of excellence), and how a CoE is integral to attain and sustain world-class performance, business value, and success in a business. Neil talks us through how to make a CoE successful, the importance of event streaming, how to better understand streaming technologies, and how to best utilize CoE for your needs. This includes evangelizing Kafka, building a Proof of Value (PoV) with team members, defining deliverables as part of that CoE, and understanding how to implement Kafka into your organization. 

EPISODE LINKS

• EoS in Kafka: Listen up, I will only say this once! by Jason Gustafson 
• The Magical Rebalance Protocol of Apache Kafka by Gwen Shapira 
• Chair-throwing meme that was discussed at end of episode 
• Apache Kafka and Confluent Platform Reference Architecture
• Benchmark Your Dedicated Apache Kafka Cluster on Confluent Cloud
• Optimizing Your Apache Kafka Deployment
• Cluster sizing
• Join the Confluent Community Slack
• Learn more with Kafka tutorials, resources, and guides at Confluent Developer
• Live demo: Kafka streaming in 10 minutes on Confluent Cloud
• Use 60PDCAST to get an additional $60 of free Confluent Cloud usage (details)