Kafka

includes Kafka Connect, Kafka Streams

16 statements across 13 episodes · 7 bullish · 0 bearish · 13 people on the record · first statement Jun 19, 2015 by Joseph Essas · said 28 times in 4 episodes since 2016 · across every show →

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Jun 19, 2015 neutral
Disclosure
Essas: OpenTable routes event streams through Kafka, Cassandra, and Spark
“All of our events flowing through Kafka, they've been populated into Cassandra, which then we run Spark instances that kind of model on top of the data.”
Joseph Essas Jun 19, 2015 ▶ 2:32 Joseph Essas, OpenTable // Mining Diner Talk (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
Jun 16, 2016 bullish
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Narkhede: Banks are leading non-tech enterprise adoption of Apache Kafka
“In fact, banks is are definitely leading the way in terms of putting Kafka To you know, very sort of ambitious applications.”
Neha Narkhede Jun 16, 2016 ▶ 19:10 A Kafka-Powered Real-Time Streaming Platform // Neha Narkhede, Confluent [FirstMark's Data Driven]
Jun 16, 2016 positive
Opinion
Narkhede: Central streaming platforms like Kafka replace legacy enterprise service buses
“Fundamentally, companies want to collect all sorts of data, and there isn't just a database and a warehouse anymore. There are lots and lots of distributed systems, which means that we need to move to a sort of platform-centric approach, and this will, this is…”
Neha Narkhede Jun 16, 2016 ▶ 20:23 A Kafka-Powered Real-Time Streaming Platform // Neha Narkhede, Confluent [FirstMark's Data Driven]
Jun 16, 2016
Assertion Supported
Narkhede: Apache Kafka powers over 1.2 trillion written messages daily at LinkedIn
“You know, Kafka powers more than, ah, 1.2 trillion messages, ah, written per day. It is, ah, it powers more than 3.4 trillion, ah, messages, ah, read per day. All that amounts to more than one petabyte of streaming data. And that is across thousands of produce…”
Neha Narkhede Jun 16, 2016 ▶ 9:48 A Kafka-Powered Real-Time Streaming Platform // Neha Narkhede, Confluent [FirstMark's Data Driven]
Jun 16, 2016
Assertion Supported
Narkhede: Apache Kafka is used by thousands of companies worldwide
“Since we open sourced it, you know, roughly five years ago, Kafka is used in thousands of companies worldwide, from Uber, and LinkedIn, and Netflix, all the way to traditional enterprises like eBay, and PayPal, and Cisco, and Goldman Sachs.”
Neha Narkhede Jun 16, 2016 ▶ 10:13 A Kafka-Powered Real-Time Streaming Platform // Neha Narkhede, Confluent [FirstMark's Data Driven]
Sep 30, 2016
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Uber engineers frequently crashed Kafka clusters with unthrottled Spark executor writes
“Kafka was, in general, like, a nice way where people used to pipe the results of, like, their Spark jobs. But often cases, what they do is, like, they hit Kafka hard and bring Kafka down because they're trying to, like, actually send data from, like, hundred e…”
Praveen Murugesan Sep 30, 2016 ▶ 10:21 The Uber Big Data Story // Praveen Murugesan, Uber (Data Driven NYC / FirstMark)
Apr 6, 2017
Disclosure
Mostak: MapD streams live Kafka data for a top social media giant
“One of our clients is one of the largest social media companies in the world, and we actually pull in streaming data via Kafka.”
Todd Mostak Apr 6, 2017 ▶ 3:57 The Power of GPU Analytics // Todd Mostak, MapD (FirstMark's Data Driven)
Apr 9, 2018
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Jon Hyman says Braze processes about 100 megabytes per second through Kafka
“So the scale that we're operating at, we're pushing about a hundred megabytes per second through Kafka.”
Jon Hyman Apr 9, 2018 ▶ 6:51 Data Pipelines at Braze // Jon Hyman, Braze (FirstMark's Data Driven)
Sep 17, 2018 neutral
Insight
Kulkarni: Popularity of Kafka will not replace traditional databases
“Like, I don't think the popularity of Kafka means that, that, that databases, you know, go away.”
Ajay Kulkarni Sep 17, 2018 ▶ 21:06 3 Heretical Ideas on the Future of Data // Ajay Kulkarni, TimescaleDB (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
Mar 15, 2021 bullish
Disclosure
Reddit is leaning heavily into becoming a Kafka shop for streaming
“So, you know, I think we're ending up leaning heavily into being a Kafka shop, building more of the stuff into base plate, into more of these core services”
Jack Hanlon Mar 15, 2021 ▶ 17:00 Fireside Chat: Jack Hanlon (VP Data, Reddit) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
Mar 15, 2021 positive
Insight
Narayan: Apache Kafka is essential for building and operating microservices
“It has been to, in my opinion, a key enabler of microservices. I think it's pretty difficult to build and operate a decentralized set of microservices without first adopting something like Kafka in your organization to just move the data between all of these v…”
Arjun Narayan Mar 15, 2021 ▶ 4:25 Fireside Chat: Arjun Narayan (Founder & CEO, Materialize) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
Apr 5, 2021
Assertion Contradicted
Apache Kafka was built on prior engineering work at Yahoo
“Things like Kafka eventually came out of LinkedIn that was based on work that we had been doing at Yahoo”
Dave Burgess Apr 5, 2021 ▶ 2:38 Fireside Chat: Dave Burgess (Head of Data Engineering, Pinterest) w/ Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
Jun 21, 2021 positive
Opinion
Plumber provides more granular stream introspection than native Apache Kafka
“It essentially gives you the ability to introspect streams, and it's super, super granular, super detailed, and it gives you know, better, better information than what you would get natively from Kafka.”
DeVaris Brown Jun 21, 2021 ▶ 23:54 Fireside Chat: DeVaris Brown (Founder & CEO, Meroxa) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
Oct 27, 2021 positive
Assertion Supported
Turck: Confluent reached a $17 billion market cap post-IPO
“So Confluent which is the company behind Kafka which is like the real-time sort of message bus, like move, move data around in real-time had a wonderful IPO. They just checked today. There are like seventeen billion market cap.”
Matt Turck Oct 27, 2021 ▶ 16:43 Top 10 Trends in AI, Machine Learning and Data for 2022
Sep 19, 2024
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Dasdan's past teams built custom Kafka alternatives to handle 100 petabytes
“In the past, when we were doing data platform, there was no Kafka, for example, we created a Kafka-like system ourselves, but we are lucky that, yeah, we created an HBase, sort of HHive-like system ourselves with hundred petabytes of size of data, right?”
Ali Dasdan Sep 19, 2024 ▶ 22:36 AI at ZoomInfo: Superpowering GTM teams | Ali Dasdan, CTO, ZoomInfo
Jan 30, 2025 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Borgman: Data architectures are shifting from batch ETL to Kafka streaming
“And that's an architecture I would say that we're seeing a lot of out there is Kafka as opposed to more traditional batch-oriented ETL.”
Justin Borgman Jan 30, 2025 ▶ 34:49 Trino, Iceberg and the Battle for the Lakehouse | Justin Borgman, CEO, Starburst
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