Kafka Summit London 2022: The Full Recap

Kafka Summit London 2022 marked the return of the Apache Kafka community to an in-person setting, drawing more than 1,200 attendees for two days of keynotes, technical sessions, and networking. Confluent CEO and Kafka co-creator Jay Kreps outlined principles of modern data flow, emphasizing streaming, decentralization, and developer-oriented declarative pipelines, alongside an airline-focused demonstration of decentralized data models. Wix backend engineering leader Avi Perez described how the company uses Confluent Cloud across two public clouds and three continents to connect 2,400 microservices and process 70 billion business events daily. The event included 60 sessions across four tracks on topics such as disaster recovery, Kubernetes, cost reduction, observability with eBPF, streaming machine learning, and batch-streaming challenges, ending with a panel of Apache Kafka committers discussing the technology’s future. Kreps also announced Current 2022, a successor event scheduled for Austin in October, while the author emphasized that the conference’s main value was the opportunity for community members to exchange ideas and reconnect in person.

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