Jay, Neha and Jun congratz!! On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 11:09 AM, Bhavesh Mistry <mistry.p.bhav...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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. > > >
