Bio

Global Field CTO at Confluent working with customers, prospects, partners across the world (US, EMEA, APAC). Writing articles and speaking at worldwide conferences and in podcasts about modern enterprise architectures and innovative open-source and cloud technologies. References: www.kai-waehner.de Follow me to learn about modernizing enterprise architectures to build innovative use cases with data in motion. I talk and write about data streaming, business solutions, modern open-source and cloud technologies, hybrid integration scenarios, and big data analytics powered by Machine Learning. Follow my blog for new publications: https://www.kai-waehner.de/newsletter Some examples: - Use Cases for Real-Time Data Streaming across Verticals: https://www.kai-waehner.de/blog/2020/10/20/apache-kafka-event-streaming-use-cases-architectures-examples-real-world-across-industries/ - Serverless Event Streaming in a Cloud-native Data Lake Architecture: https://www.kai-waehner.de/blog/2021/06/25/serverless-kafka-data-lake-cloud-native-hybrid-lake-house-architecture/ - Modern Integration Middleware - Apache Kafka vs. MQ, ESB, ETL, iPaaS: https://www.kai-waehner.de/blog/2019/03/07/apache-kafka-middleware-mq-etl-esb-comparison/ - Edge- and Hybrid Cloud IoT Use Cases: https://www.kai-waehner.de/blog/2020/10/14/use-cases-architectures-apache-kafka-edge-computing-industrial-iot-retail-store-cell-tower-train-factory/ - Real-Time Cybersecurity for the Cloud and Air-Gapped Zero Trust Environments: https://www.kai-waehner.de/blog/2021/07/02/kafka-cybersecurity-siem-soar-part-1-of-6-data-in-motion-as-backbone/ - Big Data Analytics and Machine Learning in Real-time: https://www.kai-waehner.de/blog/2020/10/27/streaming-machine-learning-kafka-native-model-server-deployment-rpc-embedded-streams/