Kafka on Kubernetes: Curious case of building Cloud Native streaming platform

When it comes to choose a distributed streaming platform of choice for real-time data pipelines, everyone knows the answer: Apache Kafka.

And when it comes to deploying real-time stream processing applications at scale without having to integrate some different pieces of infrastructure yourself? The answer is Kubernetes.

Viktor Gamov, Developer Advocate from Confluent, will help you navigate through the hype, address frequently asked questions and deliver critical information to help you decide if running Apache Kafka and other components of a streaming platform such as Kafka Connect, Schema Registry as well as stream processing apps on Kubernetes is the right approach for your organization.

Also, Viktor will cover the goals and lessons learned from development Confluent Operator for Kubernetes as well as various custom deployments.