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Narkhede: Kafka was used by 50% of Fortune 500 when Confluent launched
“Confluent kind of started with a proven technology that was used at, you know, roughly 50% of Fortune 500 companies at that point in time.”
Narkhede: Confluent was founded four years after Kafka was open-sourced
“So this conference started four years after Apache Kafka was open sourced and became successful and
It was very much an organic decision.”
Narkhede: Confluent Cloud is nearly larger than its on-premise software business
“And today, our cloud business is growing and is, you know, almost larger than the software business as well.”
Narkhede: Fraud and risk is Kafka's largest use case by dollar spend
“The whole fraud and risk space came to mind because it's one of the largest use cases of Kafka on a dollar basis.”
Narkhede: Confluent's initial branding was easy because of Kafka's popularity
“At Confluent, we could lean on the brand of a very popular Open source projects, so the zero to one branding phase was actually really easy. With Ocelor, you're, you know, humbled that you're starting with something that people don't really know about.”
Narkhede: Confluent had to combat strong developer DIY mentality around Kafka
“We spent a lot of time focusing on convincing the company that they didn't need a team managing Kafka or their team could be much smaller. Effectively, you're dealing with a, you know, target customer base that just wants to do it themselves, right? So the DIY…”
Narkhede: Kafka was built only after finding no existing streaming platforms
“We actually began by researching the market to see if anyone had built something like that. So definitely wasn't the preference to build Apache Kafka, but when we realized that nothing else existed, we decided to take the leap and start Apache Kafka, open sour…”