# DoK Talks - What is Kafka? The rise of one of the world's most used streaming data technologies // Abbey Russell Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/data-on-kubernetes-community/dok-talks-what-is-kafka-the-rise-of-one-of-the-world-s-most-used-streaming-data-technologies-abbey-russell Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/data-on-kubernetes-community/dok-talks-what-is-kafka-the-rise-of-one-of-the-world-s-most-used-streaming-data-technologies-abbey-russell.md Podcast: [Data on Kubernetes Community](https://stenobird.com/podcast/data-on-kubernetes-community) Published: 2023-03-09T11:52:54+00:00 Episode link: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dokcommunity/episodes/DoK-Talks---What-is-Kafka--The-rise-of-one-of-the-worlds-most-used-streaming-data-technologies--Abbey-Russell-e203r5j Audio file: https://anchor.fm/s/2d649bc8/podcast/play/66234995/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2023-2-9%2F317012250-44100-2-072456c377346.m4a Processing state: failed JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/data-on-kubernetes-community/episodes/dok-talks-what-is-kafka-the-rise-of-one-of-the-world-s-most-used-streaming-data-technologies-abbey-russell Duration seconds: 928 ## Resource Abbey Russell, PM at Cockroach Labs, shared the backstory on how and why Kafka was created.    Along the way, you'll learn about   - Who Franz Kafka was   - Kafka's earliest use at Linkedin in 2010 - Why organizations like Uber/Coursera/Mailchimp use it today - Future of Data Streaming   To find out more about how organizations are benefitting from running streaming workloads on Kubernetes, check out our 2022 research report- https://dok.community/data-on-kubernetes-2022-report/  https://dokcommunity.slack.com/ https://dok.community/  About Data on Kubernetes Community (DoKC)   DoKC is an independent tech community where practitioners go to run data workloads on Kubernetes. It is managed by Constantia.io. We produce a range of resources for end users looking to run DoK including:   - DoK Landscape  An interactive landscape of products and services for running data workloads on Kubernetes. (https://dok.community/landscape/)   - Videos and Blogs Hundreds of videos and blogs including how tos, tutorials, use cases, case studies, and more. (https://dok.community/landscape/) (https://dok.community/blog/)   - DoK Reports DoKC works with an independent research firm to annually produce the industry’s only DoK-focused report. (https://dok.community/dok-reports/)   - Livestreams and Local Meetups  Weekly livestreams on DoK-related topics including demos, tutorials, visionary talks, panels, and more. (https://www.meetup.com/data-on-kubern...)   - DoK Days @ KubeCon  We host hybrid events twice a year for people to get together and learn in-person or online. Details are published on our main website. (https://dok.community/)   Connect With Us:   https://dok.community/     … ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/data-on-kubernetes-community/episodes/dok-talks-what-is-kafka-the-rise-of-one-of-the-world-s-most-used-streaming-data-technologies-abbey-russell/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/data-on-kubernetes-community/dok-talks-what-is-kafka-the-rise-of-one-of-the-world-s-most-used-streaming-data-technologies-abbey-russell.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.