Sandon Jacobs

Exciting news: Confluent Platform 8.0 is here!

👋 Say bye to ZooKeeper, simplify your Apache Kafka architecture, and unlock massive scalability with KRaft
🛡️ Protect your most sensitive data with Client-Side Field Level Encryption (Generally Available)

Learn more: www.confluent.io/blog/introdu...

24.06.2025 15:40 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

#apachekafka meetup in Krakow tonight, featuring @olenakutsenko.bsky.social and @gamussa.dev

11.06.2025 17:37 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

In the words of Ice Cube: “Today was a good day…”

Thanks to everyone who attended my session at #DevoxxPl, talking #apachekafka #springframework and #kotlin

11.06.2025 17:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Spring in North Carolina… Here’s my “office view” this afternoon as I’m working on #terraform code to provision #Confluent Cloud assets…

Wanna hear more? Join us at #Current25 in London for my session on Zero to DSP in 15 minutes.

Register here -> cnfl.io/3SeSLEP

09.05.2025 18:28 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

We're just over a week out from #Current25 in London. Let @nbuesing.bsky.social give you yet another reason you should join us... Then register here -> cnfl.io/3SeSLEP

09.05.2025 16:08 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Earlier this week, I had the privilege of presenting to the Twin Cities #Apache #Kafka Meetup. Thanks to Target for hosting and the over 50 #datastreamingengineers who spent their evening with us.

11.04.2025 23:06 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

11.04.2025 23:05 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Current London 2025: Call for Speakers Discover the World of Data StreamingEvent OverviewAttention data streaming engineers! The call for proposals for Current London 2025: The Data Streami...

📣 Calling all #DataStreamingEngineers #Current25 London Call for Papers is now open!

Do you have a great data streaming story to share about event-driven design, streaming technology & real-time systems?

Submit your talk by February 17!
cnfl.io/4gFW2XY

14.01.2025 16:33 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

My 2024 "Wrapped": Year 1 in Developer Relations We all get reflective this time of year. For me, it's a look back on year one of this new chapter of my career in developer relations.

No, this isn't an official "Wrapped" - I'm just riffing... Tis the season to get all reflective and retrospective on things. Here's my 2024 recap...

www.linkedin.com/pulse/my-202...

26.12.2024 20:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

With Confluent Platform 7.8, stream processing with Apache Flink is even easier on-prem and private clouds! 🐿️

Learn more about Confluent Manager for Apache Flink and the other 🆕 goodness included in this release on the Confluent blog: cnfl.io/3D498zT

10.12.2024 19:03 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Did you know #datastreamingengineer was a job requirement for Santa’s workshop?

07.12.2024 17:57 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Big win for your Bills. That was a great game...

18.11.2024 15:04 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025: Call for Papers KubeCon + CloudNativeCon gathers adopters and technologists from leading open source and cloud native communities. Join our current graduated, incubat...

Again, I'm ditching the pumpkin spice for #cfpseason.
Call for Papers for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 is open on Sessionize and I've just submitted a session! sessionize.com/kubecon-clou...

15.11.2024 17:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

JCON EUROPE 2025: Call for Speakers JCON EUROPE 2025JCON EUROPE is a Java-focused, in-person community event held at the Cinedom Multiplex Cinema in Cologne, Germany. Feel the JCON Vibe ...

Forget pumpkin spice and decorative cups… It’s CFP season and I just submitted a talk (or 2) to JCON Europe 2025.

sessionize.com/jcon-europe-...

14.11.2024 23:44 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0