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🎉 The first Kafka Meetup 2024 Utrecht was a blast; we can't wait to share the full experience with you! On October 8th, we brought together a fantastic lineup of Kafka experts, including Jakub Scholz from Red Hat, who gave an insightful talk on the much-anticipated change in Kafka: KRaft. We also had fantastic demos and discussions with Daniel Mulder (Axual) and Erik Lindeman (Alliander). This teaser is just a taste of what's to come. Stay tuned for the entire event video, which is coming soon!

The rise of Apache Kafka as the de-facto standard for event streaming has coincided with the rise of Kubernetes for cloud-native applications. While Kubernetes is a great choice for any distributed system, that doesn't mean it is easy to deploy and maintain a Kafka cluster running on it.

At Axual we love to help DevOps teams to apply Kafka topic security in an easier way. That’s why with great pride we are bringing SASL support to our Kafka event streaming platform. SASL support is implemented on multiple levels in the platform, from the Kafka Broker to the Self-Service UI. As soon as the platform operators or tenant admins have enabled SASL support on the broker, they configure it as an available authentication method in the Self-Service UI. Then, they can gradually add support for the instances by marking SASL as an enabled authentication method.

The need to carefully manage vast amounts of streaming data is now becoming more and more crucial for every business, and having the know-how will give you an edge in the market. In this demo video, Axual CTO Joris Meijer, discussed how Axual can help you start streaming easily and effectively. The common steps in setting up a streaming data pipeline are carefully laid out and demonstrated.