Distributed systems, s/w craftsmanship, concurrency & parallelism. Maybe cinema, coffee & cycling too. Any resemblance to real opinions, is purely coincidental

San Francisco, CA
Joined January 2014
Very honored and excited for this new chapter. Warm thanks to everyone!
We are happy to announce that @karantasis accepted our invitation to become an Apache Kafka committer. Join us to congratulate him!
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Ok, this is cool! 🐅🦁🐘
🦒 Wildlife monitoring with @apachekafka!🐘 As part of Confluent #Hackathon ’22, @SimonAubury built a project using a Raspberry Pi, camera, Kafka, & @KafkaConnect to identify animals and understand population trends over time. Read about his project 👉 cnfl.io/real-time-detection-…
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"More importantly though, data streaming is about connectivity", well-written and insightful thread overall. Highlighting this quote because I'm a bit biased too 😀
1. Thoughtworks notes that "Kafka continues toward its status as a de facto standard." noting that Kubernetes, Kafka, and the CSPs are becoming stable layers in the next gen stack and churn around alternative platforms seems to have waned. thoughtworks.com/content/dam…
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Definitely a highlight of this summer for me and a very rewarding experience to work with the Apache Kafka community to release version 3.0.0
Apache Kafka 3.0 is released! 🎉 Another step closer to remove ZooKeeper dependency. And of course many other improvements, bug fixes, and new features. Thanks to 141 contributors and our RM @karantasis! For more details check out the release blog post: blogs.apache.org/kafka/
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Konstantine Karantasis retweeted
1. A quick reflection on Confluent's IPO today and the journey so far (a thread!).
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A fully managed connector of my team at the forefront of the partnership between two of the most dynamic software companies out there.
Confluent and @elastic are excited to work together to make it easier than ever to integrate @apachekafka and Elasticsearch with the fully managed Elasticsearch Sink Connector. Read more from Confluent CEO @jaykreps on our expanded partnership: cnfl.io/confluent-and-elasti…
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Deja vu all over again :) And an opportunity for a live QnA!
Join us tomorrow for a technical deep dive on Kafka’s load balancing feature. We’ll discuss the proposition of Incremental Cooperative Rebalancing as a way to alleviate stop-the-world and optimize rebalancing in Kafka APIs. Register here: confluent.io/online-talks/de…
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Distributed Systems are fascinating. I discuss load balancing in one of my favorites, Apache Kafka, at #KafkaSummit SF’19, one of the primary venues for distsys of our time. Talk starts in exactly 30 minutes! kafka-summit.org/sessions/st…
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Konstantine Karantasis retweeted
So many good sessions at #KafkaSummit, so difficult to chose which to see! This morning’s must-see for me are: - @KaiWaehner at 11:00: Kafka and ML - @karantasis at 11:55: Kafka Connect rebalancing improvements - @jbfletch_ at 11:55 (also!!): Kafka and CDC
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Konstantine Karantasis retweeted
I wrote a popular blog post on "The Log" back at LinkedIn. Here's a follow-up on what's happening with event streams, stream processing, databases, Kafka, @confluentinc and what it means for the software architecture of companies. confluent.io/blog/every-comp…
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More of a trailer than a spoiler. See you at Kafka Summit SF'19!
Incremental Cooperative Rebalancing enables @apachekafka Connect to run at large scale for more centralized and manageable connector deployments. Learn about its design and implementation in this blog post by @karantasis: cnfl.io/incremental-cooperat…
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Can’t think there’s any Kafka fan who would like to miss reading this on time.
It’s Confluent’s five year anniversary and #KafkaSummit SF is just around the corner. To celebrate, we’re offering a really good deal on tickets: $500 off your conference pass with code Confluent5 through Wednesday. cnfl.io/kssf19-social
Great initiative and a nice prelude to Kafka Summit SF’19! Also an opportunity to check Confluent’s cool SF office
Stoked to announce the @confluentinc @GirlGeekX dinner on 9/29 in our SF office — first of a series of dinners focused on bringing the OSS and Girl Geek communities together!✨Attendees will also get a free pass to Kafka Summit SF ✨See you there! 🙋‍♀️💕 eventbrite.com/e/confluent-g…
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Konstantine Karantasis retweeted
Improvements to Kafka Connect in @apachekafka 2.3 that caught @rmoff's eye include Incremental Cooperative Rebalancing, connector-level producer/consumer configuration overrides, added functionality to the /connectors REST endpoint & other logging changes. cnfl.io/kafka-connect-improv…
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Konstantine Karantasis retweeted
Events & stream processing are revolutionizing the world of movie production & the underlying financial infrastructure for @netflix which spent $8B on content in 2018. Learn more at #KafkaSummit SF. cnfl.io/kssf19-social
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Konstantine Karantasis retweeted
⏰ Tick Tock! What's the Time? ...and Why? Join us at @MatthiasJSax's talk at #KafkaSummit San Francisco on 9/30 to learn about time's crucial role in data stream processing and how to best configure #apachekafka and stream processing applications. cnfl.io/kssf19-social
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When KIP-415 was merged a few weeks ago Kafka Connect matured its load balancing and joined the big league of distributed systems. Meet me at #KafkaSummit SF'19 where I'll present all the nitty gritty details of Incremental Cooperative Rebalancing cnfl.io/kssf19-register
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And for those of you that wonder why did I tweet about this now and not when KIP-415 got merged back in June: Because now you can try Kafka Connect's new rebalancing by downloading the definite streaming data platform: confluent.io/download It's enabled by default!
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