I build kPow[0], a toolkit for Apache Kafka. I've worked with Kafka since 2012, ran a consultancy delivering systems built with Kafka and Cassandra for a while

I build kPow[0], a toolkit for Apache Kafka. I've worked with Kafka since 2012, ran a consultancy delivering systems built with Kafka and Cassandra for a while, and eventually realised our experience could be wrapped up into a great tool that covers everything Kafka from clusters to schema registries, kafka connect and more. There was literally nothing in the market when I started, so I built what we (and our customers) needed. Originally kPow was going to be a replacement for Datastax OpsCenter but it became pretty obvious in around 2017 that Kafka was going to be more widely adopted (and tbh I love the streaming compute paradigm / kafka streams / etc). I work with another engineer now and we spend all of our time chatting with users, shipping features, working in Clojure[1], it's a blast! [0] https://kpow.io https://kpow.io [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnvtPzEH-d8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnvtPzEH-d8