Congrats Jay, Neha and Jun. Look forward to it. On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 10:28 AM, Jay Kreps <jay.kr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey all, > > I’m happy to announce that Jun Rao, Neha Narkhede and I are creating a > company around Kafka called Confluent. We are planning on productizing the > kind of Kafka-based real-time data platform we built out at LinkedIn. We > are doing this because we think this is a really powerful idea and we felt > there was a lot to do to make this idea really take root. We wanted to make > that our full time mission and focus. > > There is a blog post that goes into a little more depth here: > http://blog.confluent.io/ > > LinkedIn will remain a heavy Kafka user and contributor. Combined with our > additional resources from the funding of the company this should be a > really good thing for the Kafka development effort. Especially when > combined with the increasing contributions from the rest of the development > community. This is great news, as there is a lot of work to do. We'll need > to really focus on scaling this distributed development in a healthy way. > > One thing I do want to emphasize is that the addition of a company in the > Kafka ecosystem won’t mean meddling with open source. Kafka will remain > 100% open source and community focused, as of course is true of any Apache > project. I have been doing open source for a long time and strongly believe > it is the right model for infrastructure software development. > > Confluent is just getting off the ground now. We left LinkedIn, raised some > money, and we have an office (but no furniture yet!). None the less, f you > are interested in finding out more about the company and either getting > help with your Kafka usage or joining us to help build all this, by all > means reach out to us, we’d love to talk. > > Wish us luck! > > -Jay >
