This past April, Confluent hosted the inaugural Kafka Summit in San Francisco, bringing together the entire Kafka community to share use cases, learnings, and participate in a hackathon. The summit provided valuable content for Kafka users to share their experiences with the technology. Jay Kreps, original co-creator of Kafka, delivered a keynote talk on the shift from batch-oriented data engineering to a digital business based on stream data. Other popular sessions covered topics such as large-scale stream processing with Kafka Streams, real-time systems and event-oriented data platforms using Kafka, and best practices for configuring Kafka. The summit also featured success stories like Uber's use of Kafka in its real-time transit infrastructure. Confluent plans to release more information about the 2017 event soon, which promises new opportunities for community members to meet and exchange ideas.