Tales of Kafka @Cloudflare: Lessons Learnt on the Way to 1 Trillion Messages

Interview:

What's the focus of your work these days?

Andrea: I work as a Systems Engineer at Cloudflare. I research and help prioritize what's needed to make other developers' lives easier. I design, implement and maintain platforms used by other teams to do their job effectively. For example, we maintain SDKs for Kafka and platforms that allow emitting alerts, emails audit logs and so on.

What's the motivation for your talk at QCon London 2023?

We wanted to share more about what we do for productivity, organizational culture, and also I've never spoken to such a big conference before, so it's an amazing chance for me to become more confident.

How would you describe your main persona and target audience for this session?

I think there will be a lot of people that have a lot of experience, senior engineering, CTOs, tech leads.

Is there anything specific that you'd like people to walk away with after watching your session?

A better understanding of how to set up for success when deciding to integrate with Kafka, especially in a big company where there's a lot of traffic. Many of the points in our presentation also apply to different worlds, different platforms and systems. I think everyone can get something from it.