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This playlist contains recordings of most of my speaking sessions. For conferences where the session isn't available on YouTube, check out the list below.

• Migrating Kafka from ZooKeeper to KRaft: adventures in operations - Current London 2025
• Getting the Balance Right with Kafka Connect - Kafka Summit London 2024
• Getting up to speed with Kafka Connect - Kafka Summit London 2022
• Streaming with Structure - Kafka Summit Europe 2021
• Reacting to an Event-Driven world - Kafka Summit 2020
• Lessons learned building a connector using Kafka Connect - Kafka Summit San Francisco 2019
• Running Kafka in Kubernetes: a practical guide - Kafka Summit London 2019
• Lessons learned building a connector using Kafka Connect - Kafka Summit New York 2019

• Kafka Connect, Build and Run Data Pipelines - published September 2023
• Microservices Best Practices for Java - published December 2016

• A Bootiful Podcast: RedHat's Kate Stanley on the distinction between traditional brokers and Apache Kafka
• A Bootiful Podcast: Fellow Java Champion Kate Stanley on Kubernetes and Apache Kafka

• Cloud-Native Development Using Java with Eclipse MicroProfile
• Deploying and Running Apache Kafka on Kubernetes