Narkhede: Apache Kafka is used by thousands of companies worldwide
Neha Narkhede · A Kafka-Powered Real-Time Streaming Platform // Neha Narkhede, Confluent [FirstMark's Data Driven] · Jun 16, 2016 · at 10:13
Neha Narkhede, co-founder and CTO of Confluent, highlights the broad enterprise adoption of Apache Kafka five years after its initial open-source release.
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“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.”
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