As the head of global field engineering and community at Imply, Rachel Pedreschi is passionate about engaging both externally with customers and internally with departments all across the board, from sales to engineering. Rachel’s involvement in the open source community focuses primarily on Apache Druid, a real-time, high-performance datastore that provides fast, sub-second analytics and complements another powerful open source project as well: Apache Kafka®. Together, Kafka and Druid provide real-time event streaming and high-performance streaming analytics with powerful visualizations.

EPISODE LINKS

• How To Use Kafka and Druid to Tame Your Router Data
• ETL and Event Streaming Explained ft. Stewart Bryson
• Who is Abraham Wald?
• How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking
• Join the Confluent Community Slack
• Fully managed Apache Kafka as a service! Try free.