Articles, blog posts, and podcasts published apart from my website.
2025
- Cloud Computing Insider (German): Headless Data Architecture for Modern Data Management
- The New Stack: Real-Time AI Apps: Using Apache Flink for Model Inference
2024
- CiOL – Strengthening Presence: Confluent’s Strategic Approach to the Indian Market
- Dataquest – Insights on Future of Streaming Analytics and Data Management
- Analytics India Magazine – Confluent’s Al-Powered Data Streaming to Drive India’s Real-Time Analytics (Interview)
- Java Magazin (German): Kafka and Flink – A Match Made in Heaven
- Java Spektrum (German): Deployment Options for Data Streaming – From Edge to Global Disaster Recovery
- ecommerce magazine (German) – Data Streaming – Benefits for the Retail Industry
2023
- Podcast: Hubert’s Streaming: Trends for Event Streaming in 2024 and Kafka for GenAI
- brutkasten (German): GenAI in Real-Time – New business opportunities by integrating LLMs and Data Streaming
- Industry of Things (German): Closed-Loop Manufacturing with Data Streaming
- Podcast: Tales at Scale – Kafka, Druid and Flink: The Future of Streaming Data
- ComputerWeekly: Open APIs versus Low Code/No Code Tools
- Produktion (German Print): Data Streaming for Shop Floor Data
- The New Stack: Stream Data Across Multiple Regions and Clouds with Kafka
- Open Data Science: Streaming Machine Learning without a Data Lake
- Podcast: AILINAUTEN – The Role of Field CTO + Kafka and Message Streaming
- Podcast: Modern Data Show – A Deep Div into the World of Data Streaming
- heise online: Data streaming and mainframe – Old hardware architecture meets modern software
- GI – Financial Services Site (German): Ten steps to success in the digital financial world
2022
- Big Data Insider (German): Legacy Modernization with Data Streaming
- Podcast: A Day in the Life of a Field CTO at Confluent
- Confluent Blog: Real-Time Gaming Infrastructure for Millions of Users with Apache Kafka, ksqlDB, and WebSockets
- Code Culture (Podcast, German): The current state of data streaming in 2022
- Digital World Magazine (German): Stream me to the moon – or at least to the cloud
- IoT Use Case Podcast (German): Why Apache Kafka and what use cases in Industrial IoT?
- IT-Zoom (German): Centralized data management is out – Data Mesh is the next generation
- Finance Derivative: The need for blockchain to be interoperable and why it matters
- Coding over Cocktails (Podcast): JMS vs. Kafka: Technology Smackdown with Clement Escoffier and Kai Waehner
- New Kids on the Bloq (Podcast): Guys, whats the deaaaal with these Blockchains? And whats the relation to data lake and event streaming technologies?
- Digital Manufacturing Magazine (German): How to improve the OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness) with data streaming
- Big Data Insider (German): Four cutting edge use cases for data streaming
- Big Data Insider (German): Deutsche Post DHL sets (data) packages in motion with Apache Kafka
- Netzpalaver (German): 4 Top Use Cases for Data Streaming in 2022 with Apache Kafka
2021
- ObjektSPEKTRUM (German magazine): Cloud-native Middleware – Kafka vs. MQ, ETL, ESB
- IT-Daily (German): Data Streaming in Hybrid Cloud Environments
- it-novum (German): How to Build a Smart City with IoT and Event Streaming
- IT & OT Production (German): Event Streaming as Foundation for Monitoring and Control in Plants
- Admin Magazine: Event Streaming with Kafka from Operations Perspective
- Hivecell: Kafka & Confluent at the Edge: Interview with Kai Waehner
- Confluent Blog: Apache Kafka and SAP Integration with the Kafka Connect ODP Source Connector
2020
- Beyond Buildings IoT Podcast: From a Proprietary Past to an Open Future
- Confluent Blog: Use Cases and Architectures for HTTP and REST APIs with Apache Kafka
- Linux Magazin 12/20 (German): Introduction to Apache Kafka for Event Streaming
- The Timelords Podcast (focus: Industrial IoT): Exploring the Value of Kafka for IIoT
- Confluent Blog: Kafka-Native MQTT at Scale with Confluent Cloud and Waterstream
- Industrial IoT Podcast: Event streaming architectures enabling IoT applications beyond messaging
- Insider Research Podcast (German): Event Streaming – A nervous system for data, an interview with Kai Wähner of Confluent
- Confluent Podcast: IoT Integration and Real-Time Data Correlation with Kafka Connect and Kafka Streams ft. Kai Waehner
- Confluent Blog: Streaming Machine Learning with Apache Kafka, Confluent Tiered Storage and TensorFlow IO – No Need for yet another Data Lake
- Confluent Whitepaper: Apache Kafka in the Automotive Industry
2019
- Google Blog: Enabling connected transformation with Apache Kafka and TensorFlow on Google Cloud Platform
- Confluent Podcast: Machine Learning with Kafka Streams, Kafka Connect and ksqlDB
- Confluent Blog: Machine Learning and Real Time Analytics in Kafka Applications (Model Server vs. Embedded Model)
- ObjektSpektrum (German) – Real Time Analytics at an Insurtech
- Confluent Blog: Internet of Things (IoT) and Event Streaming at Scale with Apache Kafka and MQTT
- Confluent Blog: Real-Time Analysis and Monitoring Dashboards with Apache Kafka and Rockset
- Confluent Blog: Microservices, Apache Kafka and Domain-Driven Design (DDD)
- InfoQ – Event Streams and Workflow Engines – Kafka and Zeebe
- Confluent Blog – Machine Learning with Python, Jupyter, KSQL and TensorFlow
- JavaMagazin (German) – Apache Kafka and Machine Learning – A Perfect Combination?
Kai Waehner
