Neil Buesing is a seasoned Apache Kafka® user, and a respected voice from the Kafka community who specialises in helping companies make the best use of Kafka. And that makes him the ideal person to ask the $64,000 question: What problems can Kafka actually solve for me? Because Kafka's definitely interesting, and it can be fun, but to earn a place in the toolbox it has to make life easier. In answering that question, Neil covers a tonne of ground, from queuing and quasi-databases, transitioning from batch to real-time, and solving general software integration headaches. If you have data problems, big or small, join us to figure out if Kafka is the answer. -- Kinetic Edge: https://www.kineticedge.ioNeil on Twitter: https://twitter.com/nbuesingNeil on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nbuesing/Kris on Twitter: https://twitter.com/krisajenkinsKris on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/krisjenkins/Building an Enterprise Eventing Framework (Conference Talk): https://www.confluent.io/en-gb/kafka-summit-san-francisco-2019/building-an-enterprise-eventing-framework/Synchronous Kafka (Conference Talk): https://www.confluent.io/resources/kafka-summit-2020/synchronous-commands-over-apache-kafka/Dev Local: https://github.com/kineticedge/dev-localKIP-714 - Client metrics and observability: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-714%3A+Client+metrics+and+observability