The concept of software is eating the world, transforming how businesses operate and interact with customers. Traditional database architectures are being reevaluated as companies shift towards building whole parts of their business in code. The rise of event streams presents a new paradigm for thinking about data, where data is treated as a continuous, active stream of events, fed to passive queries that react and process the stream. Confluent's mission is to build an event streaming platform that incorporates storage and query processing capabilities, enabling companies to harness real-time data and drive business decisions. The event streaming platform has significant implications for how companies are structured, with the potential to become a central nervous system for software-defined companies.