Presentation at Seattle Apache Kafka Meetup Apr 18, 2017 Abstract: Microsoft has extensive deployments of Kafka supporting large scale data streaming. This talk will introduce the challenges in building a multi-tenant system for the enterprise, and discuss the design approach we have taken. Speaker: Thomas Alex, Principal Program Manager, Microsoft Thomas Alex is a Program Manager in the Shared Data team at Microsoft, and has worked on many aspects of big data: data ingestion, data distribution, master data management, orchestration and ETL pipeline management, data virtualization, in-memory databases, business intelligence, and reporting.