Josep Prat has been an avid contributor to the Kafka community for almost 15 years. An outspoken advocate for open source in general Josep frequently lectures at universities and industry events on how and why developers should contribute to the open source community. Josep is both a member of the Kafka PMC and is a Kafka committer.
What we’ll cover:
How the OSS landscape has changed in the last 15 years
- What made Josep become an OSS maintainer rather than just a user
- The problems enterprises face with storage pain points in production Kafka deployments that made tiered storage essential.
- Making open source more sustainable and how individual KIPs fit into that bigger picture.
As always we’ll offer a free coffee voucher to all attendees. Get Kafka-Nated!
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Get Kafka-Nated - Episode 2
Josep Prat - Life of a Kafka contributor
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Jul 21, 2025

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Conversations with Apache Kafka experts exploring streaming technology without the sales pitch, delivering technical insights and community stories for practitioners at all levels.
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