Kafka Connect: Build Data Pipelines by Integrating Existing Systems - Softcover

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Mickael Maison is a committer and member of the Project Management Committer (PMC) for Apache Kafka. He has been contributing to Apache Kafka and its wider ecosystem since 2015. Mickael is a software engineer with over 10 years of software development experience. While working at IBM, he was part of the Kafka team that runs hundreds of Kafka clusters for customers. He is now working in the Kafka team at Red Hat and has accumulated a lot of expertise about Kafka Connect.

In addition, Mickael has developed and contributed to several connectors for Connect. He also has deep expertise in Connect's internals as he has made a number of code contributions to Connect itself and regularly reviews pull requests from the community on this component.

Finally, Mickael really enjoys sharing expertise and teaching. He has been writing monthly Kafka digests since 2018 and enjoys presenting at conferences.

Kate currently works as a Principal Software Engineer across the Red Hat Kafka offerings. She also contributes to multiple projects in the Kafka ecosystem, including the open-source Kafka operator, Strimzi. Kate started her journey with Kafka as part of the Event Streams team at IBM in 2018, quickly becoming well known in the community.

Alongside development, Kate has a passion for presenting and sharing knowledge. She is a regular speaker at technical conferences around the world, including events such as Kafka Summit, Jfokus, Devoxx UK and JavaOne. She has authored two LinkedIn Learning courses on MicroProfile and Kafka and written an eBook on writing microservices with Java.