Kai Waehner

Why Apache Kafka® and for which IIoT use cases? – Confluent Cloud, Kafka and event streaming explained simply

Confluent is the IoT tech partner for today’s episode and co-developed the Apache Kafka® standard. The standard is already used by 100,000 organizations worldwide to handle large data volumes in real-time. Looking at the word “fluent”, the goal is obvious: Efficient data flow – the data should flow and not be pushed into datalakes! We’re talking about this data hub, a toolbox that allows me to consume and process data streams openly into all systems in a flexible way. Data engineering can be simple: In this podcast, Field CTO at Confluent, Kai Waehner, explains in detail from the field how data volumes are filtered, ingested, processed and reused. In addition, topics addressed include: – Real-time data handling – The Business Impact of Data in Motion – Data streaming at customer BMW – Brownfields at customers – Functions of the data hub – Coupling of system data with IT data (SAP) – Data connection to the data hub