About the Authors
Mickael Maison is a committer and the chair of the Project Management Committer (PMC) for Apache Kafka. He has been contributing to Apache Kafka and its wider ecosystem since 2015.
Mickael currently works as a principal software engineer in the Kafka team at Red Hat. He has over 10 years of software development experience. Previously, he was part of the Event Streams team at IBM that runs hundreds of Kafka clusters for customers.
He also has deep expertise in Kafka Connect’s internals. He has made a number of code contributions to Kafka Connect itself and regularly reviews pull requests and KIPs 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 Stanley is a software engineer, technical speaker, and Java Champion. She has experience running Apache Kafka on Kubernetes, developing enterprise Kafka applications, and writing connectors for Kafka Connect.
Kate currently works as a principal software engineer in the Red Hat Kafka team. 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, ...
