Video and slides synchronized, mp3 and slide download available at URL http://bit.ly/1EvA7jo. Neha Narkhede discusses how companies are using Apache Kafka and where it fits in the Big Data ecosystem. Filmed at qconnewyork.com. Neha Narkhede is co-founder and head of engineering at Confluent. Previously, she was responsible for LinkedIn’s petabyte scale streaming infrastructure supporting hundreds of billions of events per day. She is also one of the initial authors of Apache Kafka and serves as a PMC member and committer for the project.