Ben is a Technologist in the Office of the CTO at Confluent Inc. (the company behind Apache Kafka) where he’s worked on a range of projects from implementing the latest version of the replication protocol through to developing strategies for streaming applications. Before Confluent Ben built the central data platform for for a large investment bank. His earlier career spanned a variety of projects at Thoughtworks and UK-based enterprise companies. Find out more at benstopford.com.
For a long time the database has been the defacto standard for data, but as architectures grow to include many applications, services and databases, data settles into disparate islands that are increasingly hard to tie together. A problem that is accentuated as business workloads become more data intensive and development ... Read More
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