Day: June 26, 2026

Nine years at Confluent: from the Apache Kafka startup in Silicon Valley to the IBM acquisition in 2026. Keynotes, customer case studies, industry books, and thousands of conversations later: mission accomplished.

Apache Kafka

My Confluent Chapter: From Apache Kafka Startup to $11 Billion IBM Acquisition

Nine years at Confluent: from a Silicon Valley startup with 100 people to an $11 billion IBM acquisition. A personal reflection on the Apache Kafka

26. June 2026

Popular Categories

Latest Post

Nine years at Confluent: from the Apache Kafka startup in Silicon Valley to the IBM acquisition in 2026. Keynotes, customer case studies, industry books, and thousands of conversations later: mission accomplished.

My Confluent Chapter: From Apache Kafka Startup to $11 Billion IBM Acquisition

26. June 2026

Thumbnail for an article comparing YAML, XML, and JSON, showing the three formats on a scale from verbose to readable with the tagline "Right tool, right job."

YAML vs XML vs JSON: History, Trade-offs, and Where Each Wins in the Age of Agentic AI

24. June 2026

Thumbnail contrasting Kafka as an ingestion pipe into a lakehouse versus Kafka as an event-driven architecture backbone connecting business applications.

Why Databricks and Snowflake Speak the Kafka Protocol: Ingestion vs. Architecture

22. June 2026

Choosing an ERP for manufacturing: the vendor landscape from SAP and other Tier 1 platforms to mid-market specialists, with five AI disruption scenarios and the core message that fit beats default.

Choosing an ERP for Manufacturing: How AI Is Reshaping the Vendor Landscape

15. June 2026

Process intelligence combines process mining, orchestration, and a decision gate into one architecture that governs automation and AI.

Process Intelligence Explained: Mining, Orchestration, and the Decision Gate

10. June 2026

ERP migration to SAP S/4HANA: the strangler fig pattern shows legacy ERP shrinking as the new platform grows, stage by stage. No big bang. No shortcuts.

ERP Migration to SAP S/4HANA and Beyond: Lessons Learned from German Manufacturing

1. June 2026