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2017 was an amazing year for Apache Kafka® as an open source project and for Confluent as a company. I wanted to take moment to thank all the contributors and users of the open source project, as well as our customers and partners and the people here at Confluent for contributing to such an outstanding year.
One of the most impressive things for me to see in 2017 was the degree to which companies were starting to view Kafka as a strategic data platform, and the scope and centrality of the applications they were developing. We got to work with companies reimagining retail, healthcare, cars, travel, banking, and virtually every other industry you can imagine, around streams of real-time events. I could not be more excited about this: our vision for Kafka is for it to grow into a central nervous system of the modern company, and we seem to be well on our way to that vision.
We’re already working on a new and exciting set of challenges for 2018, but I thought it would be fun to celebrate a couple of the big steps we took last year. Here are few.
Confluent Milestones
Apache Kafka Community Milestones
We’ve come a long way since the earliest Kafka prototypes we did at LinkedIn, but in so many ways the most exciting things lay ahead of us. Stay tuned for what’s next.
Mike Wallace is the new GM for the Public Sector, bringing 25 years of experience to lead the expansion of data streaming use by government agencies.
Confluent has acquired WarpStream, an innovative Kafka-compatible streaming solution. Read the full statement by Jay Kreps, co-founder and CEO of Confluent.