HI Guys, Thanks for your awesome support. I wish you good luck !! Thanks for open sources Kafka !!
Thanks, Bhavesh On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 10:52 AM, Rajasekar Elango <rela...@salesforce.com> wrote: > Congrats. Wish you all the very best and success. > > Thanks, > Raja. > > On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 1:36 PM, Niek Sanders <niek.sand...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > Congrats! > > > > 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 > > > > > > -- > Thanks, > Raja. >