Devconf.cz 2023

Running workloads at the edge is becoming more and more popular. When done right, it can lead to improved performance and resiliency of your applications or help to save costs. One of the edge workloads can be Apache Kafka and data stream processing. This talk will explain what exactly “edge” means when talking about Apache Kafka, what advantages you can expect from it, what are the possible use cases, and explain how you can push the processing results to the “cloud” or pull data from the cloud to the edge location in a secure fashion. It will also show why Kubernetes is the right choice for running Kafka at the edge and how you can manage it on the edge locations using GitOps. The talk will include a demo of how you can use Kubernetes, Strimzi, and Apache Kafka to collect data from IoT devices, process them at the edge and push them to the cloud.